MELODIC CONTOURS IN INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES PRODUCED IN LOUD READING: PERCEPTION ANALYSIS

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the relationship between intonation contours and the perception of propositional attitudes neutral yes-no question, request for confirmation, incredulous yes-no question and rhetoric yes-no question, described by Moraes (2008). This thesis is based on Intonational Phonology — Gussenhoven (2004) — and in research by Moraes (2008, 2012, 2016, etc.) who studied the contrastive variation in the intonation of Brazilian Portuguese (PT-BR). The corpus is formed by 12 speech signals which refer to readings performed by the researcher herself and 480 objective responses from 3 perception experiments. The results indicate that the interviewees were more sensitive to neutral yes no question and incredulous yes-no question and that the melodic configuration of the confirmation and request for confirmation proposed by Moraes (2008) proved to be atypical in the dialect of the investigated subjects.

Author Biography

  • Juliana Lemos Marinho da Silva, PPGL–UFPE

    Mestra em Letras/Linguística pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2023). Especialista em Língua Portuguesa pela Universida Católica de Pernambuco (2016). Licenciada em Letras (Português/Inglês) pela Faculdade de Formação de Professores da Mata Sul (2011). Atualmente é Analista Educacional - Técnica de ensino em língua portuguesa da Prefeitura Municipal do Ipojuca/PE. Em sua pesquisa de mestrado, investigou a produção de contornos melódicos e a percepção de atitudes proposicionais em sentenças interrogativas, em contextos de leitura em voz alta.

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2024-09-19

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Vol. 45 (2023)

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Dossiê temático "Análise Linguística: Perspectivas Teóricas"

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