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2. Asking Questions across Portuguese Varieties


 
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1. Title Title of document 2. Asking Questions across Portuguese Varieties - Prosodic Variation (with)in Languages
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Marisa Cruz; University of Lisbon;
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Verònica Crespo-Sendra; University of Lisbon;
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Joelma Castelo; University of Lisbon;
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Sónia Frota; University of Lisbon;
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) prosodic variation; intonation; prosodic phrasing; Portuguese; yes-no questions
 
5. Subject Subject classification Phonetics; Phonology
 
6. Description Abstract Recent research on yes-no question intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese suggests that there is a high variety of nuclear patterns of yes-no questions not only between European and Brazilian varieties but also across European Portuguese varieties (Frota et al. 2015, Silva 2014, Cruz et al. 2014, among others). However, there is a lack of studies that include a detailed description and comparison of yes-no questions in different varieties of Portuguese. The first goal of the current study is to describe the intonation of yes-no questions in European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP and BP, respectively) by analyzing a wide range of utterances and regions covered within the project Interactive Atlas of Prosody of Portuguese. Considering the fact that interrogatives can have different pragmatic functions, we decided to analyze yes-no questions also from a pragmatic point of view, thus looking at neutral and focused yes-no questions. Studies have shown that speakers can signal the difference between neutral and focused questions intonationally, in various languages (Frota 2002, Savino & Grice 2007, Lee et al. 2008, Truckenbrodt 2009, Crespo-Sendra 2011). Some studies have found a gradient contrast between the two types of questions, while other studies indicate that the contrast is expressed categorically. Therefore, the aims of this paper are: a) to analyze and compare phonologically the nuclear configuration of neutral and focused yes-no questions across Portuguese varieties; and b) to investigate the strategies that EP and BP speakers use to distinguish between neutral and focalized yes/no questions.






























































 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 22-Apr-2022
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/30066
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.30066
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Prosodic Variation (with)in Languages
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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