A dialectometric approach to Romanian intonation

Authors

  • Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia & University of South Africa
  • Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi
  • Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Iasi
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Universitat de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.ne11.07

Keywords:

Romanian, intonation, dialectometry, falling question contours

Abstract

This paper presents the first dialectometric analysis of intonational variation of standard spoken Romanian. The data analysed (26,680 sentences) were gathered within the AMPER-ROM project and the dialectometrical analysis has been carried out with ProDis. The results are consistent with the geolinguistic descriptions of Romanian varieties. ProDis identified two major areas for yes-no questions: a central-eastern one (Moldo-Walachian), with rising contours, and a central-western one (Transylvanian, discontinuously continuing over Bukovina to Bessarabia—the Republic of Moldova—), which presents also falling contours. The study suggests that intonational areas are somehow more conservative of and (relatively) independent from segmental dialectal areas.

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Published

2023-01-24

How to Cite

Roseano, P., Turculet, A., Bibiri, A.-D., Cerdà Massó, R. ., Fernández Planas, A. M., & Elvira-García, W. (2023). A dialectometric approach to Romanian intonation. Onomázein, (NEXI), 105–139. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.ne11.07

Issue

Special Issue XI: Current Approaches to Romanian and Spanish Intonation

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