A dialectometric approach to Romanian intonation
- Paolo Roseano 1
- Anca-Diana Bibir 2
- Ana M. Fernández Planas 3
- Adrian Turculet 2
- Ramon Cerdà Massó 3
- Wendy Elvira García 3
- 1 Universidad of South Africa
- 2 Universidad de Rumania
- 3 Universidad de Barcelona (España)
ISSN: 0717-1285, 0718-5758
Año de publicación: 2022
Título del ejemplar: Número especial XI: Aproximaciones actuales a la entonación en rumano y español
Número: 11
Páginas: 105-139
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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Resumen
This paper presents the first dialectometric analysis of intonational variation of standard spo-ken Romanian. The data analysed (26,680 sentences) were gathered within the AMPER-ROM project and the dialectometrical analysis has been carried out with ProDis. The results are consistent with the geolinguistic descriptions of Romanian varieties. ProDis identified two major areas for yes-no questions: a central-eastern one (Moldo-Walachian), with rising con-tours, and a central-western one (Transylvanian, discontinuously continuing over Bukovina to Bessarabia—the Republic of Moldova—), which presents also falling contours. The study suggests that intonational areas are somehow more conservative of and (relatively) indepen-dent from segmental dialectal areas