The calling contour in Hungarian and English

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ID20399751
AuthorsLászló Varga (0000-0001-7431-852X), László Z Varga (0000-0001-8088-4528, Eötvös Loránd University, corresponding author), Varga László (0000-0003-0555-331X)
Year2008
Volume25
Issue3
Pages469-497
Publication date2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhonology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-6757 • E-ISSN: 1469-8188
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0952675708001607
OpenAlexW2107235815
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited23

This article examines the calling contour (CC) in Hungarian and systematically compares its formal properties with those of its English counterpart. After a critical survey of the literature on the English CC, it carries out a phonological analysis of the Hungarian CC, offering a plausible representation based on that analysis. This contains a H pitch accent (H*) and a downstepped H phrase tone (!H-), corresponding to the first and second terrace of the CC respectively. Other apparent possibilities, viz . that the second H tone is a trailing tone or a boundary tone, are rejected. When the Hungarian CC is utterance-final, it coincides with the final portion of an intonational phrase and needs a boundary tone. It is argued that this boundary tone is neither H% nor L but 0% (H* !H-0%). Hungarian utterances can also contain utterance-internal CCs. These can be analysed as being intermediate phrases, lacking a final boundary tone

Linguistics · Mathematical analysis · Phrase · Pitch accent · Political science · Prosody · Speech recognition · Utterance · Computer Science · Law · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

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