a comparative study in the amper project

a comparative study in the amper project

THE PROSODY OF DECLARATIVES AND
INTERROGATIVES IN CATALAN: A
COMPARATIVE STUDY IN THE AMPER PROJECT
A. Ma. Fernández Planas, L. Romera Barrios, P. Roseano, E. Martínez Celdrán
& J. Carrera Sabaté
Universitat de Barcelona
Acknowledgement: MCI, ref. FFI2009-09309/FILO
The AMPER project
Results
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The AMPER Project, promoted by the Centre de
Dialectologie at the Stendhal-Grenoble3 University
(France) since the 1990s, aims to collect and describe
different prosodic samples of Romance languages in
the framework of a multimedia atlas ([1, 2, 3]). In the
Catalan-speaking area, the development of the project
for Spanish and Catalan (both being co-official
languages in most part of this area) under the direction
of E. Martínez Celdrán is known as AMPERCAT.
Goal
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To establish the most frequently label of broad focus
statements and information-seeking yes-no questions
sentences in Catalan within the Cat_ToBI framework.
Methodology
63 broad focus statements (SVO), 63 interrogative
sentences (SVO) & 63 information-seeking yes-no
questions headed by the particle que and VOS (3
repetitions of each) in each speaker except in the
last type in València, Castelló and Novelda (Total:
4,536 sentences)
Catalan of Barcelona, Girona, Maó & l’Alguer
(Eastern Catalan), Lleida, Tortosa, València,
Castelló & Novelda (Western Catalan).
Female speakers without university education.
Goldwave, AMPER06, PRAAT, Reno, Extra, SPSS.
AM labelling from Cat_ToBI ([6, 7]) & statistic and
automatic labelling ([4, 5, 8] proposals).
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Conclusions
Peaks in the pre-nuclear positions (and also of the nuclear accent, if the
sentence ends with a rising tone) are usually aligned with the post-tonic
syllable (and, in proparoxytone words, with the syllable after the post-tonic).
Peaks of oxytone words are lower than peaks of paroxytone words, and
peaks of paroxytone words are lover than peaks of proparoxytone words
If the sentence ends with a falling tone: final F0 values of oxytone words are
higher than final F0 values of paroxytone words, and final F0 values of
paroxytone words are higher than final F0 values of preparoxytone words.
There are dialectal differences which do not get reflected in the phonological
labeling. For this reason, the contribution of phonetics may not be disregarded
if we want to achieve an adequate geointonational description of a language.
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