ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Analysis of Global Pitch Contour Domains at Paragraph Level in Spanish Reading Text

Juan María Garrido

Departament de Filologia Espanyola, Facultat de Lletres, Edifici B, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

In this paper a study of F0 patterns at paragraph level is presented. The goals of this work are the search of a domain for the 'basic intonation unit' within the paragraph and the validation of the existence of an F0 pattern for the whole paragraph. The results suggest that it is necessary to define a special linguistic unit that covers the scope of these patterns. They also seem to indicate that there is some general tendency to a global declination in the paragraphs, specially in the bottomline, and that there exists some kind of partial reset working at the internal boundaries of the paragraph.

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Bibliographic reference.  Garrido, Juan María (1993): "Analysis of global pitch contour domains at paragraph level in Spanish reading text", In Prosody-1993, 104-107.