ROUND TABLE PROSODY

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ROUND TABLE - PROSODY

• Giovanna Marotta
• Università di Pisa

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Round Table

• Maria Paola DIMPERIO
• Daniel HIRST
• Philippe MARTIN

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Round Table

• Proceedings ICPhS (1999 2003)
• gt 100 papers on intonation.
• Speech Prosody (2002 2004)
• gt two thirds of papers on intonation.

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Round Table

• Development of studies on intonation
• two different, autonomous, but conspiring
  elements contributed to the development of the
  research on intonation
• 1)  applied research on the synthesis
• 2) non-linear phonological models

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Phonology of intonation

• is it possible to deal with intonation in
  phonological terms??
• even in those systems
• where tone is not lexically contrastive?
• caveat F. de Saussure
• the object of the research is given by
• the point of view assumed.

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Phonology of intonation - I

• 1. Which is the meaning of the word
  phonological ??
• I-language E-language
• ? a tonal contrast might be phonological only if
  it engages a variation of meaning at the level of
  linguistic competence

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Phonology of intonation - II

• 2. Melodic variations relative to differences at
  pragmatic/sociolinguistic level may be considered
  as phonological?
• ? without being phonological, do they belong to
  the boundary levels of pragmaphonetics and
  sociophonetics?

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Phonology of intonation - III

• 3. Which kind of prosodic competence does the
  native speaker in a language where tone is not
  lexical?
• ? Is it of the same type of the awareness he has
  with respect to the segmental level of the
  phonetic string?

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Round Table - Material

• a sample of utterances
• different syntactic structure and pragmatic
  modality
• five varieties of Italian Florence, Rome,
  Naples, Palermo, Turin

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On a particular regional variety

• 1. Do you take into account the phonetic
  variation within a single variety?
• How can it be coded?
• 2.     Regarding the variation due to pragmatic
  and paralinguistic phenomena
• would your preliminary analysis account for it?
• which phenomena would be considered?
• how would they be coded?

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Contrastive analysis of Italian varieties

• 1.     Which method would you use for the
  comparison? What would you compare?
• 2. What type of differences should be
  present in order to speak of different
  phonological systems?

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According to your approach

• 1.     Which considerations can be made on the
  basis of this limited amount of data?
• 2. What is the usefulness of (semi)spontaneous
  speech as material for prosodic analysis?
• 3.   According to you, what is the ideal material
  for studying prosody?