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E. Shestera, N. Urtegeshev, I. Selutina, A. Shamrin ExLing 2020

Prosody of focus in statements of the Altai language Elena Shestera, Nikolay Urtegeshev, Iraida Selutina, Anton Shamrin Laboratory of Phonetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Russia Abstract The prosody of verbal word forms in the narrative utterances of the Altai language is under consideration in the article. In this work, in addition to the acoustic analysis in the Praat program, we took into account the subjective perception of native speakers. In the simple statements the intonation declines on the predicate when realizing the topic of the utterance. The focus of the utterance may be expressed by pitch and intensity peak. Key words: Altai language, intonation, prosody, narrative statement, topic, focus