1. A dialectometric approach to Romanian intonation.
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Roseano, Paolo, Bibiri, Anca-Diana, Fernández Planas, Ana Maria, Turculeț, Adrian, Cerdà Massó, Ramon, and Elvira-García, Wendy
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ROMANIAN language , *INTONATION (Phonetics) , *ORAL communication , *SENTENCES (Grammar) - Abstract
This paper presents the first dialectometric analysis of intonational variation of standard spoken Romanian. The data analysed (26,680 sentences) were gathered within the AMPER-ROM project and the dialectometrical analysis has been carried out with ProDis. The results are consistent with the geolinguistic descriptions of Romanian varieties. ProDis identified two major areas for yes-no questions: a central-eastern one (Moldo-Walachian), with rising contours, and a central-western one (Transylvanian, discontinuously continuing over Bukovina to Bessarabia--the Republic of Moldova--), which presents also falling contours. The study suggests that intonational areas are somehow more conservative of and (relatively) independent from segmental dialectal areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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