Sintagma (Dec 2016)
Hacia una caracterización semántica del verbo caler
Abstract
Research on German intonation has been notably increasing since the metrical-autosegmental system was applied to the description of German intonation patterns and also to the intonation description of some German linguistic varieties. This system for the description of intonation was developed first by Pierrehumbert (1980) and later adapted to German by Grice et al. (1996), Gussenhoven (1988) and Mayer (1995). The analytical procedure, that we apply in the present work, is methodologically quite different from the metrical-autosegmental framework. The acoustic analysis of utterances will be carried out with the melodic analysis of speech (MAS) method, developed by Cantero (2002). The objective of this paper is to analyse, to describe and to characterise the melodic patterns of syntactically marked questions in northern German in spontaneous speech and to compare our results with the descriptions of German intonation patterns obtained through the metrical-autosegmental system.
