La Intercomprensió d'interrogatives absolutes amb tonemes descendents del català, de l'espanyol de les canàries i del gallec

Abstract

This paper presents a study of interrogative sentences in the Catalan of Barcelona, the Spanish of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and the Galician spoken in Santiago de Compostela. After a brief acoustic description of the melody used in each language variety, the results of perception tests carried out with subjects from the three areas of study on the sentences in the corpus (each containing three pitch accents) are given, the sentences first having been synthesized and stripped of their lexical content. The results show that, although each group of subjects recognize more easily and consider more normal the sentences from their own linguistic variety, mutual intelligibilty among speakers of the Romance varieties studied is good.