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| Title: | The calling contour in Hungarian and English |
| Author: | László Varga |
| Institution: | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Linguistic Field: | Phonology |
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Hungarian
English |
| Abstract: | This article examines the calling contour (CC) in Hungarian and systematically compares its formal properties with those of its English counterpart. After a critical survey of the literature on the English CC, it carries out a phonological analysis of the Hungarian CC, offering a plausible representation based on that analysis. This contains a H pitch accent (H*) and a downstepped H phrase tone (!H-), corresponding to the first and second terrace of the CC respectively. Other apparent possibilities, viz. that the second H tone is a trailing tone or a boundary tone, are rejected. When the Hungarian CC is utterance-final, it coincides with the final portion of an intonational phrase and needs a boundary tone. It is argued that this boundary tone is neither H% nor L but 0% (H* !H-0%). Hungarian utterances can also contain utterance-internal CCs. These can be analysed as being intermediate phrases, lacking a final boundary tone. |
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This article appears in Phonology Vol. 25, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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