Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Intonation Patterns of Dialogic Speech of German Mennonites (an Attempt of the First Experimental Prosodic Investigation)

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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (10)
Authors
Shindrova, Ksenia V.; Grigorieva, Alena S.; Ryzhikova, Tatiana R.; Dobrynina, Albina A.
Contact information
Shindrova, Ksenia V.: Institute of Philology SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Grigorieva, Alena S.: Institute of Philology SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Ryzhikova, Tatiana R. : Institute of Philology SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ORCID: 0000-0001-6337-725X; Dobrynina, Albina A. : Institute of Philology SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0001-5841-4714
Keywords
Plautdietsch intonation; German Mennonite language of Siberia; endangered languages; languages without written tradition; suprasegmental phonetics
Abstract

The article for the first time describes the intonation of dialogic speech of Germans-Mennonites. The research material consists of audio recordings of dialogues in the Plautdietsch language, collected from native speakers living in the Novosibirsk region, using a specially developed questionnaire of the information gap type. The obtained data are annotated in the Praat program for acoustic analysis; spectrograms, waveforms, and intonograms (fundamental frequency and intensity) are analyzed. From a communicative perspective, statements, general (modal), and special (dictal) questions are studied. It has been established that affirmative utterances have a dramatic rising-falling tone on the last word. If subordinate clauses or adverbial modifiers follow the main part, they are intoned with declination. Incompleteness of an utterance is characterized by a level or weakly rising tone movement. The intonation of interrogative utterances depends on the type of question: general (modal) questions have an ascending tone, while special (dictal) questions have a rising-falling tone on the question word. Further analysis of various types of utterances is required to verify the obtained results

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1932–1945
EDN
HERFXZ
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/157510

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