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The Intonation of absolute questions of Brazilian Portuguese
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In this paper we describe three melodic patterns of absolute interrogatives from a phonetic point of view, obtained from a corpus in Goiás (Brazil). The patterns are: a) Rising Final Inflection (30% to 52%), b) Rising-Falling Final Inflection, c) High Nucleus Final Inflection. These patterns have been established from the acoustic analysis and standardisation of 55 questions and from the verification of their validity in a perception test. We compared them with interrogative patterns obtained in different parts of Brazil and also in two Romance languages, Spanish and Catalan.
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CANTERO SERENA, Francisco José and FONT ROTCHÉS, Dolors. The Intonation of absolute questions of Brazilian Portuguese. Linguistics and Literature Studies. 2013. Vol. I, num. 3, pags. 142-149. ISSN 2331-642X. [consulted: 13 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/61565