L'intonazione dell'italiano parlato spontaneo

Voghera, Miriam

doi:10.1179/ita.1989.9.1.116

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“…Intentional vagueness responds to different communicative needs, on the basis of which I proposed to distinguish three kinds of vagueness (Voghera 2017(Voghera , 2022Voghera & Collu 2017): 4 a. informational vagueness, the domain of which is the propositional content, depending on lack of information:…”

Section: From Cxstn[temp] To Intentional Vaguenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This article deals with some Italian constructions with time nouns (TNs), minuto ('minute'), momento ('moment'), attimo ('instant') that, besides expressing a temporal meaning, have developed functions and meanings ranging from intentional vagueness to focus, as it happens to many pragmatic markers (Underhill 1988;Miller & Weinert 1995;Mihatsch 2020;Voghera 2017Voghera , 2022Voghera , 2023Voghera & Borges 2017). In particular, I investigate why the diminutive forms of the considered TNs are only allowed in some TN constructions (CxsTN).…”

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The role of diminutive suffixes in the Italian Time Nouns constructions: From approximation to focus?

Voghera

2023

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The time nouns (TNs), minuto (‘minute’), momento (‘moment’), attimo (‘instant’) can be part of constructions in which they keep all their categorial and syntactic properties, but also in constructions which seem to undergo a process of grammaticalisation: loss of categorial property of nominal inflection; the sequence DET+TN (un attimo, un momento, un minuto) can no longer be interrupted by modifiers nor have postnominal modifiers; semantic shift from the original temporal meaning to the more general meaning of a ‘(small) indefinite amount’, to continue towards more properly grammatical values of quantifiers to pragmatic values of hedges, alerter and textual marker of focus. Interestingly, while the original temporal constructions do not occur in diminutive forms, the departure from temporal meaning makes the use of diminutive forms possible. The article explores in which cases they are allowed and the semantic and textual factors which contribute to their presence.

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Section: From Cxstn[temp] To Intentional Vaguenessmentioning

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Section: Introduction *mentioning

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The role of diminutive suffixes in the Italian Time Nouns constructions: From approximation to focus?

Voghera

2023

ZWJW

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“…In particular, the role played by dialogicity and use in shaping language has received great attention in studies on so-called constructionalization (Traugott and Trousdale 2013), which focus on the emergence of grammar from recurrent discourse patterns. Other recent approaches have highlighted the online aspects of grammar by taking the consequences of the linearity of speaking in time for syntactic organization into serious consideration (Auer 2009;Auer & Pfänder 2011), by focusing on the specificities of dialogic syntax (Linell 2009;Du Bois 2014), or by identifying the linguistic correlates of spoken modality at all levels of grammar (Voghera 2017).…”

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Ad hoc categorization and languaging: the online construction of categories in discourse

Mauri

Sansò

2020

Language Sciences

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“…Phenomena such as segment prolongations and non-verbal vocalizations have been described as belonging to the heterogeneous class of linguistic elements that speakers may use to manage the complex online speech production and perception processes [1,2,3]. More specifically, speakers may suspend their speech and gain valuable time by lengthening segmental material or by producing non-verbal vocalizations or nasalizations, i.e., eeh, ehm.…”

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Prolongation in Italian

Schettino,

Eklund

2023

Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop 2023

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This study follows the framework set by the strand of corpus studies aimed at investigating and unveiling the role of prolongations as linguistic elements by comparing their use in different languages, ranging from Germanic languages (Swedish, American English, German) to Tok Pisin, Chinese Mandarin, Hungarian and Hebrew, and provides evidence on the use of prolongation in a Romance language, namely Italian. The analysis is conducted on different speech styles, i.e., descriptive informal dialogic speech as well as informative monologic speech, and concerns the distributional characterisations of prolongation phenomena, their segmental and durational traits also considering the comparison with another type of voiced speech management phenomena, that is non-verbal vocalisations. The main results show that in the considered Italian data speakers use prolongations more frequently than non-verbal vocalisations and the latter are generally longer, which argues for the fact that these two voiced phenomena are differently involved in speech management. Then, the distributional and segmental features of prolongations in Italian as compared to other languages support the idea that prolongations, as linguistic elements, are subjected, to a certain extent, to the phonotactic constraints of languages. 1

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L'intonazione dell'italiano parlato spontaneo

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

The role of diminutive suffixes in the Italian Time Nouns constructions: From approximation to focus?

The role of diminutive suffixes in the Italian Time Nouns constructions: From approximation to focus?

Ad hoc categorization and languaging: the online construction of categories in discourse

Prolongation in Italian

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