Interesting! Especially since Australian intonation tends to go up on the final syllable somewhat anyway. Also, many questions in interrogative situations are rhetorical ("Who did you think you were?", etc) and may feature no pitch modulation at all. Are you making an argument, or reviewing the scholarship (or both)?
That's a fascinating website that you linked to, by the way, but strange that they were all speaking English. I listened to a few of the Hebrew ones but was a bit disappointed by their lack of variation. What happened to the arsim of Holon!? Hehe. Also, they seem to list some of the word-initial ps and bs as being unaspirated: I've tried and tried and cannot reproduce this! Any idea what's going on?
PS: I think that if you go in for making new blogs, you should make a purely linguistic one as well! Just to make people like me happy...
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Date: 2006-11-09 11:53 am (UTC)That's a fascinating website that you linked to, by the way, but strange that they were all speaking English. I listened to a few of the Hebrew ones but was a bit disappointed by their lack of variation. What happened to the arsim of Holon!? Hehe. Also, they seem to list some of the word-initial ps and bs as being unaspirated: I've tried and tried and cannot reproduce this! Any idea what's going on?
PS: I think that if you go in for making new blogs, you should make a purely linguistic one as well! Just to make people like me happy...