Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan

del Mar Vanrell, María; Mascaró, Ignasi; Torres-Tamarit, Francesc; Prieto, Pilar

doi:10.1177/0023830912443942

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Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan

Published in Language and Speech • Jul 11, 2012

Authors:

María del Mar Vanrell

Ignasi Mascaró

Francesc Torres-Tamarit

Abstract

Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by prosodic means in a variety of languages (Armstrong, 2010, for Puerto Rican Spanish; Grice & Savino, 1997, for Bari Italian; Kügler, 2003, f...

Subject

Catalan

Pitch accent

Stress (linguistics)

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