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The calling contour in Hungarian and English*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2009

László Varga
László Varga
Affiliation:
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
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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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Phonology , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , December 2008 , pp. 469 - 497
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Copyright © 2009 Cambridge University Press

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