Acoustic-prosodic characteristics of reported speech in mérida spanish
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Reported speech, Prosody, Pragmatics, Mérida SpanishAbstract
This paper analyses the acoustic-prosodic characteristics of reported speech in Mérida Spanish and the pragmatic functions they have within the conversation. Fifty direct speech and sixteen indirect fragments were analyzed. They were divided in three parts: previous fragments, reported speech (direct or indirect), and subsequent fragments. The fundamental frequency, intensity and duration were measured in each part in order to study the acoustic and prosody of the previous and subsequent sequences of the reported speech. We found that F0 is the only acoustic parameter that enables to distinguish the reported speech from other sequences. The direct speech is characterized by an increasing of the F0 in the previous sequences, that descends and it is maintained until the end of the subsequence sequence. On the other hand, in indirect speech the previous sequence and the reported speech have a similar F0 and there is a significant increasing in the subsequent sequences. As far as the acoustic-prosodic encoding of the pragmatic functions, it was found that F0 is the only parameter that can distinguish among them. It was observed that the functions with a high F0 are reporting a thought and arguing.
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