An Exploratory Study of Yes-No Question Intonation in Bilingual Labourdin French
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nerea Delgado (0000-0003-4473-1465, Florida State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 362 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages9120362 |
| OpenAlex | W4404721082 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
Despite the growing interest in the study of intonation in bilingual regions in France, the case of Basque French remains under-investigated. Previous research on yes-no questions in standard French has shown that rising contours are the prototypical realization, while bilingual varieties in contact with Corsican or Occitan also seem to allow falling intonation to different extents. To investigate the case of Basque French, data from 11 Basque-French bilinguals from Labourd were considered. Participants completed a contextualized reading task and the Bilingual Language Profile questionnaire, which was used to examine their linguistic profile and language dominance. The results showed that rising intonation predominated (90%), presenting two main realizations: A low rise (L+H* H%) and a high rise ((¡)H* H%). Falling contours, in turn, appeared in only 10% of the data. In a preliminary consideration of these results by language dominance group, low rising contours were found to be more common among Basque-dominant participants, while falling ones appeared more often among French-dominant participants. While surprising, this result could, at least partly, stem from the participants' personal experiences with bilingualism and their contact with other varieties of Basque. We thus conclude that, for the most part, Basque Labourdin French resembles standard French intonation. The higher prevalence of falling intonation among French-dominant speakers, however, calls for future research
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