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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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HRPUB Horizon Research Publishing Corporation

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Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2013, vol. I, num. 3, p. 142-149

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cc-by (c) Cantero Serena, Francisco José, 1964- et al., 2013

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Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General)

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The Intonation of absolute questions of Brazilian Portuguese