Tonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents

This work investigates the tonal structure of the focal accent in narrow focus statements of Neapolitan Italian. The formal properties of this accent lend themselves to two competing analyses. Specifically, this accent could equally be described as a HL accentual fall or as a LH rise. The two analys...

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Autor principal:	Mariapaola D'Imperio
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2003
Materias:	Focus pitch accent tonal target alignment scaling slope Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9d8098c0898b43e39f1f2803b9deb70b2021-11-27T10:49:25ZTonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents10.5565/rev/catjl.431695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/9d8098c0898b43e39f1f2803b9deb70b2003-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/43https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719This work investigates the tonal structure of the focal accent in narrow focus statements of Neapolitan Italian. The formal properties of this accent lend themselves to two competing analyses. Specifically, this accent could equally be described as a HL accentual fall or as a LH rise. The two analyses were evaluated on the basis of a set of utterances containing focus constituents with varying number of words. Long narrow focus constituents present in fact a medial F0 minimum that appears to be an actual tonal target. Such a target might be part of either a HL or of a LH accent. Tonal as well as timing evidence appear to lend support to the LH hypothesis. An important consequence is that the final fall of statement focus constituents must be analyzed as a tonal event that is separate from the nuclear pitch accent and is analogous to the question final fall.Mariapaola D'ImperioUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleFocuspitch accenttonal targetalignmentscalingslopePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 2 (2003)
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topic	Focus pitch accent tonal target alignment scaling slope Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Focus pitch accent tonal target alignment scaling slope Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Mariapaola D'Imperio Tonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents
description	This work investigates the tonal structure of the focal accent in narrow focus statements of Neapolitan Italian. The formal properties of this accent lend themselves to two competing analyses. Specifically, this accent could equally be described as a HL accentual fall or as a LH rise. The two analyses were evaluated on the basis of a set of utterances containing focus constituents with varying number of words. Long narrow focus constituents present in fact a medial F0 minimum that appears to be an actual tonal target. Such a target might be part of either a HL or of a LH accent. Tonal as well as timing evidence appear to lend support to the LH hypothesis. An important consequence is that the final fall of statement focus constituents must be analyzed as a tonal event that is separate from the nuclear pitch accent and is analogous to the question final fall.
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author	Mariapaola D'Imperio
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title	Tonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents
title_short	Tonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents
title_full	Tonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents
title_fullStr	Tonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents
title_full_unstemmed	Tonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents
title_sort	tonal structure and pitch targets in italian focus constituents
publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
publishDate	2003
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Tonal structure and pitch targets in Italian focus constituents

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