Muskildiko galderen intonazioaz

Abstract

The goal of this work is twofold: on the one hand I present the data for an analysis of the intonation patterns of a variety of the souletin dialect and, on the other hand, I propose an analysis of the diferent types of questions. The paper has three main sections: in the first section, after presenting the data regarding YES/NO questions, I develop a phonological analysis. Next, a phonetic analysis of the tones postulated in the phonological analysis is given. WH-questions are analyzed in the second section. In the third section, three types of questions are analyzed, that is questions made by means of "ala ez" (or not), "ez" (not) and “othe” (‘maybe’ in quiestions). To finish, I summarize the results of the diffe- rent analyses presented through the paper, and possible extension for further research are proposed.