Prosody in Diné Bizaad Narratives

A Quantitative Investigation of Acoustic Correlates

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ID3133313
AutoresKayla Palakurthy (0000-0003-3669-6014, University of California, Santa Barbara, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume85
Fascículo4
Páginas497-531
Data de publicação2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/704564
OpenAlexW2975315172
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas25

This article is an empirical examination of prosodic correlates used to demarcate discourse units in a collection of Diné bizaad narratives. This study builds on observations of prosodic patterns in related Dene languages and evaluates the presence of hypothesized correlates of following pause, syllable lengthening, pitch lowering, and pitch reset at boundaries for intonation units and syntactic sentences. Based on an analysis of nine narratives, I find that the Diné narrator marks the majority of her intonation units with a following pause, as well as with significant rhyme lengthening in the final syllable and a slight, but significant pitch reset at the beginning of the unit. The results further show that the narrator marks syntactic sentences with longer following pauses and pitch lowering on unit-final syllables along with a unit-initial pitch reset. Together, these results present empirical evidence for prosodic marking of discourse units in Diné bizaad connected speech

Intonation (linguistics · Linguistics · Narrative · Prosody · Reset (finance · Rhyme · Speech recognition · Syllable · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology