Some considerations about intonation patterns of vocatives in Romanian language

This paper focuses on an analysis of the intonation patterns of different types of vocatives in Romanian language. We present the main characteristics of the tonal patterns observed in the vocative constructions instances of isolated vocatives and contexts in which vocatives occur in different posit...

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Published inOnomazein : revista de linguística y traducción del Instituto de Letras de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile no. SI; pp. 85 - 104
Main Authors Bibiri, Anca-Diana, Mocanu, Mihaela
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
English
Published Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Facultad de Letras 01.11.2022
Subjects
intonation
Ro_ToBI
Romanian
vocative
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Summary:This paper focuses on an analysis of the intonation patterns of different types of vocatives in Romanian language. We present the main characteristics of the tonal patterns observed in the vocative constructions instances of isolated vocatives and contexts in which vocatives occur in different positions: initial, middle, and final. Our analysis, in the framework of AM phonology with ToBI conventions, reveals that most of isolated vocatives are realized as L+H*(!)H% (vocative chant), and L+H* L% (insistent call). For non-isolated vocatives the most frequent contours are labeled as L+H* L% and H+L* L%. Cross-linguistically, our findings show that Romanian vocatives display the same pattern as other Romance languages. Keywords: vocative; intonation; Romanian; Ro_ToBI.
ISSN:0717-1285
0718-5758
DOI:10.7764/onomazein.ne11.01