
handle: 10451/25546
This chapter describes the intonation system of Portuguese, concentrating on the analysis of the three main functions of intonation: demarcation, highlighting, and distinction of utterance types. It is based on the description of a single variety: the Lisbon variety for European Portuguese (EP), and the Rio de Janeiro variety for Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The chapter describes the language-particular preferences in intonational grouping that characterize European and Brazilian Portuguese, the size of intonational phrases, the distribution of tonal events within the intonational phrase and the ways in which intonational boundaries are realized. The chapter describes the intonation of two major types of questions: wh-questions and yes-no questions, as types of pragmatically neutral information-seeking questions. It is concerned with the intonation of wh-questions with the question word in sentence initial position. Finally, the chapter presents a typological look at the intonation of Portuguese within the Romance space.
Intonation, Phrasing, Focus, European Portuguese, Prominence, Sentence types, Prosodic variation, Prosody, Brazilian Portuguese
Intonation, Phrasing, Focus, European Portuguese, Prominence, Sentence types, Prosodic variation, Prosody, Brazilian Portuguese
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 0 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
