A Case Study: Rhythm and Intonation of Simple Sentences with a Copulative Verb Cover Image

Изследване на казус: ритъм и интонация на копулативен тип прости изречения
A Case Study: Rhythm and Intonation of Simple Sentences with a Copulative Verb

Author(s): Hristiana Krasteva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: rhythm; intonation; prosody; copulative verb; simple sentences

Summary/Abstract: The study is focused on the rhythmic and intonational characteristics of simple sentences with the copulative verb to be. The adopted experimental protocol consists of the processing of a corpus of simple sentences collected under the project Rhythm and Intonation of the Bulgarian Sentence (МУ21-ФлФ-013), using Speech Analyzer 3.1, followed by analysis of their melodic graphs and spectrograms with a focus on the pro-sodic grouping of the phrases. The number and type of prosodic units are studied, as well as the type of prosodic grouping in the verb phrase of the copulative verb to be.

  • Issue Year: 69/2022
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 206-217
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian