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Article published In: Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín and Laura Morgenthaler
[Spanish in Context 16:3] 2019
► pp. 543–572

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From a perceptual point of view, is there prosodic continuity between languages in contact?

 | Universitat de Barcelona
 | Universitat de Barcelona | University of South Africa
 | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
 | Universitat de Barcelona
 | Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Published online: 17 January 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00050.fer
Abstract
This paper contains the results of a set of perception tests that aimed at measuring perceived prosodic distances between different Romance languages (Italian, Friulian, Sardinian, Catalan, and Spanish). Data were collected within the framework of the AMPER project. The results were obtained by means of discrimination and identification tasks where the judges were 31 native speakers of Catalan form Barcelona and the stimuli were broad focus statements and yes-no questions in the above-mentioned languages. The perceived distances are then compared with the results of a dialectometric analysis of acoustic data. This comparison shows that the perceived distances are related to acoustic differences.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Perception of prosody and intonation
    • 1.2State of affairs with acoustic data. The Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model and the 1.5-semitone psychoacoustic threshold
    • 1.3Dialectometry based on acoustic data
  • 2.Methodology
    • 2.1Informants, survey points and corpus of stimuli
    • 2.2The perceptive tests: General characteristics and profile of the judges, SPSS evaluation
    • 2.3Experiment 1: Identification test
    • 2.4Experiments 2 and 3: AX discrimination tests
    • 2.5Experiments 4 and 5: ABX discrimination tests
  • 3.Acoustic description of the melodies
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Concerning the initial personal information forms of the listeners
    • 4.2Experiment 1: Identification test
    • 4.3Test 2. AX discrimination in declaratives
    • 4.4Test 3. AX Discrimination in polar interrogatives
    • 4.5ABX discrimination test in declaratives
    • 4.6ABX discrimination test in interrogatives
  • 5.Discussion and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
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