Do production and perception walk together? A comparative study between production and perception of neutral yes no questions in Brazilian Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v26i1p97-115Keywords:
Brazilian Portuguese, Perception, Dialectal variation, intonation, yes-no questionAbstract
The present work aims to study the perception of intonation in yes-no questions in the following varieties of Brazilian Portuguese: João Pessoa (PB), Aracaju (SE), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), Florianópolis (SC) and Porto Alegre (RS). Previous production studies, developed under the theoretical apparatus of autosegmental metric phonology for intonation (Ladd, 2008[1996]) indicate two dialectal regions in BP: Northeast (PB, SE), characterized by a predominantly ascending interrogative nuclear contour; and Southeast-South (BA, RJ, SP, MG, SC and RS), characterized by an ascending-descending interrogative nuclear contour. The distribution of these patterns strongly suggests the formation of a dialectal continuum from North to South of the Brazilian Atlantic Coast, which was confirmed through a perception study for the two macro-regions (Castelo et al., 2018). Based on these studies, it was expected that, by expanding the sample of varieties, both the dialectal regions and the continuum found at the production level would be confirmed. Although the bidialectal distribution has been confirmed, the continuum in perception between varieties was not found for the current set of varieties investigated, suggesting indirect relations within production and perception as well as the complexity involved in the design and application of perception experiments on prosodic variation.
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