Sintassi e intonazione nell' italiano parlato

Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana; Voghera, Miriam

doi:10.2307/479425

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“…2.1 L-AcT and spoken syntax: linearized syntax vs. patterned constructions Since a significant amount of the linguistic content in speech is made up by strongly fragmented structures, problems arise when traditional syntactic criteria are applied to the analysis of spoken syntax. Thus, the sentence as a unit of reference for speech has been easily discarded by scholars, among which most choose the clause or clause complexes instead (Chafe 1984;Quirk et al 1985;Halliday 1985;Voghera 1992;Miller & Weinert 1998). Nonetheless, the clause as well is not a completely satisfactory unit of reference for spontaneous speech, and not only much of spoken language is made up by loose phrases, interjections or fragments, but also prosodic and syntactic boundaries often do not overlap (cf.…”

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Effects of speech rhythm on spoken syntax. A corpus-based study on Brazilian Portuguese and Italian

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2016

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This paper presents a preliminary study on the syntax/prosody interface in spoken Brazilian Portuguese and Italian, within the Language into Act Theory theoretical framework (L-AcT, Cresti 2000). According to this theory, spoken syntax has to be studied taking into consideration the way the speaker combines information along one or more information units, since each of them is understood as a syntactic/semantic island (Cresti 2014). Then, linearized syntax defines proper dependency relationships, performed within the same information unit, while patterned constructions, syntactic structures performed across more than one information unit, are to be analyzed considering the pragmatic functions of the information units involved (Cresti 2014). According to a non-discrete conception of speech rhythm (Barbosa 2000, 2006), BP can be defined as a more stress-timed language with respect to IT, and its tonal unit can host more phonological syllables than IT’s, for BP’s rhythm leads to strong re-syllabification phenomena. Based on data from the C-ORAL-BRASIL (Raso & Mello 2012) and Italian C-ORAL-ROM (Cresti & Moneglia 2005) spontaneous speech corpora, this paper aims at verifying if such prosodic features partake in the way the two languages display preference for linearized syntax or patterned constructions.

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