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Titul: The phonology of calls in Ladin: Towards a unified account of chanted vocatives in Romance
The phonology of calls in Ladin: Towards a unified account of chanted vocatives in Romance
Roseano Paolo, Rodriquez Francesco
Descriziun: Ladinia XLVI, 093–136
doi: https://doi.org/10.54218/ladinia.46.93-136
This paper investigates the prosody of stylized calls of Badiot Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romance variety spoken in the Badia Valley (Eastern Alps). A Discourse Completion Task was used to elicit 108 utterances from six native speakers of Badiot. The results show that, from a phonetic point of view, the calling melody consists of a low F0 stretch, followed by a rise to high in the stressed syllable, a high plateau in pre-final unstressed syllables (in proparoxytones names only), and a mid-plateau in the final unstressed syllable, whose nucleus is considerably lengthened. After comparing the stylized intonation of Ladin with the same contour in other Romance languages, we argue that this contour can be represented phonologically as L+H* !H%, while the presence of the two plateaus can be explained by means of tonal spreading. We tentatively suggest that the final lengthening can be interpreted as the result of the presence of a prosodic mora aligned with the nucleus of the final syllable.
doi: https://doi.org/10.54218/ladinia.46.93-136
This paper investigates the prosody of stylized calls of Badiot Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romance variety spoken in the Badia Valley (Eastern Alps). A Discourse Completion Task was used to elicit 108 utterances from six native speakers of Badiot. The results show that, from a phonetic point of view, the calling melody consists of a low F0 stretch, followed by a rise to high in the stressed syllable, a high plateau in pre-final unstressed syllables (in proparoxytones names only), and a mid-plateau in the final unstressed syllable, whose nucleus is considerably lengthened. After comparing the stylized intonation of Ladin with the same contour in other Romance languages, we argue that this contour can be represented phonologically as L+H* !H%, while the presence of the two plateaus can be explained by means of tonal spreading. We tentatively suggest that the final lengthening can be interpreted as the result of the presence of a prosodic mora aligned with the nucleus of the final syllable.
Lingaz: EN
Data: 2022
Autur: Roseano Paolo, Rodriquez Francesco
Copyright: Istitut Ladin Micurá de Rü - ISSN 1124-1004
