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Nature of Sentence Intonation in Kannada, Tulu and Konkani

Mili Mary Mathew, MSc. (Speech-Language Pathology)
Jayashree S. Bhat, Ph.D. (Speech and Hearing)

Abstract

Intonation is one parameter of prosody that gives information on the production aspects of linguistic prosody. The aim of this study was to understand the terminal intonation patterns of different types of sentences in three languages Kannada, Tulu and Konkani.

Four simple sentences, one for each sentence type namely, declaratives, exclamatory, interrogatives, and imperatives were taken and recorded in Motor Speech Profile software, by native speakers of the three languages. F0 patterns were plotted using the PHH model of intonation. The results showed that declaratives and imperatives had falling contours in all languages. Exclamatory sentences had raising contours in Kannada and Konkani, but falling contour in Tulu. Interrogatives had raising patterns across all languages, except for males in Kannada.

The production of sentences in Kannada, Konkani and Tulu indicated that there are differences in the terminal F0 pattern across the different sentence types.

Key words: Linguistic prosody, intonation, Indian languages, instrumental analysis

Introduction

Speech is the effective way in which we communicate. It has got mainly the segmental and suprasegmental features. Segmental features are the basic inventory of distinctive sounds and the way that they combine to form a spoken language where as suprasegmentals are those features that influences the way the sounds are processed for meaning. Suprasegmental features are also called as prosodic features. Segmental features alone do not serve the purpose of communication. Communication becomes meaningful only when the supra segmental features are imposed and is useful in speech production as well as perception.

Prosody serves a variety of functions in language processing. Functionally prosody may convey both linguistic and affective contents based on which prosody can be classified as linguistic prosody and emotional prosody Vivian & Hielscher, 2004. Emotional prosody is defined as the ability to express emotions where as Linguistic prosody is used to disambiguate or to mark the internal organization of sentence constituents or to convey the intonation contour of a sentence (Lieberman, 1968).

Research has indicated that right hemisphere dominates for decoding affective prosody whereas the left is dominant for the linguistic prosody. There are also evidences from the brain damaged individuals that substantiate these views. Right hemisphere damaged individuals have been reported to perform poorly in the perception and production of emotive intonation compared to left hemisphere damaged or non-brain damaged (Ross, 1981). Damage to both the cortical and subcortical structures can give rise to impaired speech prosody (Kent & Rosenbeck, 1982).

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Mili Mary Mathew, M.Sc. Speech-Language Pathology (Corresponding Author)
Department of Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Kasturba Medical College
Manipal University
Mangalore-575001
Karnataka, India
mili.mathew@manipal.edu

Jayashree S. Bhat, Ph.D. Speech & Hearing
Department of Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Kasturba Medical College
Manipal University
Mangalore-575001
Karnataka, India
bhat.js@manipal.edu

 
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