The proportion of F0 changes in the falling contours of Hungarian spontaneous declarative utterances
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2022.3.317Keywords:
intonation, standardization, falling melody, declarative utterances, spontaneous speechAbstract
The aim of the study is to analyse which position presents the most radical tonal movement among the full falling and half falling melodies in declarative utterances of Hungarian spontaneous speech. In this research, 300 declarative utterances from 60 non-smoking young Hungarian adults were analysed, based on the Melodic Analysis of Speech model by Cantero & Font-Rotchés, the central element of which is melody standardization. According to the results, as also seen in data from previous literature, the fall from the first stressed syllable to the next syllable is more significant than in the case of the tonal movements between other syllables; the fall is more prominent from other stressed syllables to the next syllable than from unstressed syllables, but from the last stressed syllable to the next syllable this fall is not significantly larger. Results also reveal that in spontaneous speech the proportion of certain sustained melodies (rising and level) at the end of the sentence can exceed even the proportion of the falling ones.
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