Prosodic distances between different survey sites in Romance-speaking Europe
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Published:2023
Issue:ne11
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Page:5-32
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Container-title:Onomázein Revista de lingüística filología y traducción
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Short-container-title:Onomázein
Author:
Elvira-García Wendy, ,Turculet Adrian,Bibiri Anca-Diana,Baker Campbell Annie,Cerdà Massó Ramon,Fernández Planas Ana M.a,Roseano Paolo, , , , , ,
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to classify Romanian dialects from a prosodic point of view within the European Romance-speaking area. The data is part of the Multimedia Atlas of Romance Prosody - AMPER (Contini, 1992) and is analysed dialectometrically by means of ProDis (Elvira-García et al., 2015; Fernández Planas, 2016). The database includes more than 17,000 utterances produced by 48 speakers from 26 survey sites of 15 varieties of 6 Romance languages (Catalan, Spanish, Italian, Sardinian, Friulian and Romanian). The results show that the two main prosodic areas of Romanian (see Roseano, 2016b) remain separate when they are dialectometrized with data from other Romance languages. In addition, if one analyses questions and statements separately, it can be seen that questions allow us to distinguish geoprosodic areas more effectively than statements do (as suggested by previous studies such as Fernández Planas et al., 2015).
Publisher
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Sociology and Political Science,Infectious Diseases,Communication,Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Forestry,Education,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous),Accounting,Business and International Management,General Engineering,Law,Computer Science (miscellaneous),Law,Pathology and Forensic Medicine