A dialectometric approach to Romanian intonation

• Paolo Roseano ^[2] ; Anca-Diana Bibir ^[3] ; Ana M. Fernández Planas ^[1] ; Adrian Turculet ^[3] ; Ramon Cerdà Massó ^[1] ; Wendy Elvira García ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat de Barcelona

     Universitat de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad of South Africa
  3. [3] Universidad de Rumania

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• Localización: Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ISSN 0718-5758, ISSN-e 0717-1285, Nº. 11, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Número especial XI: Aproximaciones actuales a la entonación en rumano y español), págs. 105-139
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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