Prosody in Diné Bizaad Narratives

A Quantitative Investigation of Acoustic Correlates

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3133313
AutoresKayla Palakurthy (0000-0003-3669-6014, University of California, Santa Barbara, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen85
Número4
Páginas497-531
Fecha de publicación2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/704564
OpenAlexW2975315172
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias 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