Araújo, Monique L., Font-Rotchés, Dolors (2016). \"As interrogativas do português brasileiro falado em Minas Gerais e sua entonação\"

As interrogativas do português brasileiro falado em Minas Gerais e sua entonação Monique Leite Araújo°, Dolors Font-Rotchés* °Universidade de Brasília, *Universitat de Barcelona

This paper deals with the characterization of the melodic patterns of absolute interrogative utterances in Minas Gerais State (Brazil). This research has been made based on data from spontaneous speech settings, 32 speakers of different gender, age and education, through the Melodic Analysis of Speech (Cantero 2002). As a result, we found four intonation patterns: Rising Final Inflection (30%~60%), Rising (