Pitch contours in Russian yes/no questions by Finns
Ullakonoja, Riikka. 2010. Pitch contours in Russian yes/no questions by Finns. In: Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark & Bradlow, Ann & Cole, Jennifer & Livescu, Karen & Pierrehumbert, Janet & Shih, Chilin (eds.) Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2010 Conference, Chicago.
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2010The aim of this paper is to determine the pitch contours Finns
use when uttering yes/no questions in Russian. In addition, the
pitch contours will be compared to native speech as well as
subjected to native speaker evaluation. So far, there has been
very little research on the prosody of Russian as a second
language. L1 Finnish students are an interesting group to study
because intonation in Finnish is not distinctive whereas in
Russian it is.