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Variation in Tone and Gesture within Language
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The present research focuses on the relation between tone and gesture across varieties of the same language, European Portuguese (EP). Three questions are addressed: (i) whether EP varieties use different visual cues while producing different sentence types/pragmatic meanings, (ii) if there is a relation between intonational variation and variability (if any) of visual cues, and (iii) if each linguistic factor involved can predict the type of visual cues used.
Two sentence types (statements/yes-no questions) and pragmatic meanings (broad/narrow focus) were examined in four varieties of EP. Results show that visual cues, like intonation, may vary across varieties and sentence types/pragmatic meanings. Furthermore, sentence type and pragmatic meaning are good predictors of how visual cues are time-aligned with intonation, in contrast with language variety. Consequently, we hypothesize that visual cues might play an important role in discriminating sentence types/pragmatic meanings,
especially in the absence of tonal contrasts.
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Visual prosody Intonation Language varieties Sentence types Pragmatic meaning
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Cruz, M., M. Swerts & S. Frota (2015) Variation in tone and gesture within language, in Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ed. The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow