Phonetic and phonological imitation of intonation in two varieties of Italian

The aim of this study was to test whether both phonetic and phonological representations of intonation can be rapidly modified when imitating utterances belonging to a different regional variety of the same language. Our main hypothesis was that tonal alignment, just as other phonetic features of sp...

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Main Authors: Mariapaola eD'Imperio, Rossana eCavone, Caterina ePetrone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01226/full