Prosodic distances between different survey sites in Romance-speaking Europe

Wendy Elvira-García; Adrian Turculet; Anca-Diana Bibiri; Annie Baker Campbell; Ramon Cerdà Massó; Ana M.a Fernández Planas; Paolo Roseano

doi:10.7764/onomazein.ne11.05

Autores/as

Wendy Elvira-García Universitat de Barcelona
Adrian Turculet Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Anca-Diana Bibiri Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Iasi
Annie Baker Campbell Universitat de Barcelona
Ramon Cerdà Massó Universitat de Barcelona
Ana M.a Fernández Planas Universitat de Barcelona
Paolo Roseano Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia & University of South Africa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.ne11.05

Palabras clave:

AMPER, prosody, dialectometry, Romanian, ProDis

Resumen

The aim of this paper is to classify Romanian dialects from a prosodic point of view within the European Romance-speaking area. The data is part of the Multimedia Atlas of Romance Prosody - AMPER (Contini, 1992) and is analysed dialectometrically by means of ProDis (Elvira-García et al., 2015; Fernández Planas, 2016). The database includes more than 17,000 utterances produced by 48 speakers from 26 survey sites of 15 varieties of 6 Romance languages (Catalan, Spanish, Italian, Sardinian, Friulian and Romanian). The results show that the two main prosodic areas of Romanian (see Roseano, 2016b) remain separate when they are dialectometrized with data from other Romance languages. In addition, if one analyses questions and statements separately, it can be seen that questions allow us to distinguish geoprosodic areas more effectively than statements do (as suggested by previous studies such as Fernández Planas et al., 2015).