This study investigates the perception of Italian minimal pair sentences formed by infor- mation-seeking questions and rhetorical questions. Two perception experiments were per- formed, the first using natural stimuli, the second using three different series of stimuli generated by manipulating respectively: 1) the duration of the nuclear vowel, 2) the final intonation contour, 3) both duration and final contour. The two types of questions behaved differently. The results showed that temporal manipulations contributed to the rhetorical interpretation more often than the manipulations of the final intonation contour
Sul riconoscimento percettivo delle domande retoriche. On the perceptual recognition of rhetorical questions
Sorianello P.
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2020-01-01
Abstract
This study investigates the perception of Italian minimal pair sentences formed by infor- mation-seeking questions and rhetorical questions. Two perception experiments were per- formed, the first using natural stimuli, the second using three different series of stimuli generated by manipulating respectively: 1) the duration of the nuclear vowel, 2) the final intonation contour, 3) both duration and final contour. The two types of questions behaved differently. The results showed that temporal manipulations contributed to the rhetorical interpretation more often than the manipulations of the final intonation contourFile in questo prodotto:
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