ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2006
ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2006

Prosody as marker of discourse segmentation in Suyá

Miguel Oliveira Jr

The present study investigates whether - as in several welldocumented languages -, prosody plays a role in the signaling of discourse segmentation in Suyá, an Amazonian language of the Jê group. Inspired by the literature, the following prosodic variables were selected for analysis: pause, pitch reset and boundary tones.