Prosodic demarcation of the paratones in the oral academic discourse: experimental study in a sample of university lectures
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
The main objective of this work is to characterize the behavior of the fundamental frequency, intensity, the vowel duration and the pauses in the paratones demarcation (topical units) of the oral academic discourse. The study is carried out with a sample of 50 paratones, segmented from 10 university lectures. From the combination of methods of perceptual, acoustic and statistical analysis, results are obtained that allow explaining the value of prosody in the topical organization of this type of discourse.The study demonstrates the use of tonal and intensity reset as more evident mark of paratone change.
Article Details
Copyright
All articles published online by Estudios de Fonética Experimental are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED), unless otherwise noted. Estudios de Fonética Experimental is an open access journal. Estudios de Fonética Experimental is hosted by RCUB (Revistes Científiques de la Universitat de Barcelona), powered by Open Journal Systems (OJS) software. The copyright is not transferred to the journal: authors hold the copyright and publishing rights without restrictions. The author is free to use and distribute pre and post-prints versions of his/her article. However, preprint versions are regarded as a work-in-progress version used as internal communication with the authors, and we prefer to share postprint versions.