Intonation of Greek in contact with Turkish: a diachronic study

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Baltazani M., Przedlacka J., ÜNAL LOGACEV Ö., Logačev P., Coleman J.

Language Variation and Change, cilt.34, sa.3, ss.271-303, 2022 (AHCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 34 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1017/s0954394522000126
  • Dergi Adı: Language Variation and Change
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Periodicals Index Online, EBSCO Education Source, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.271-303
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: continuation rise tune, curve fitting, diachronic data, intergenerational change, intonation
  • İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Asia Minor Greek (AMG) speakers cohabited with Turkish speakers for eight hundred years until the 1923 Lausanne Convention, which forced a two-way mass population exchange between Turkey and Greece and severed their everyday contact. We compare the intonation of the continuation rise tune in the speech of first-generation AMG speakers born in Turkey with three subsequent generations born in Greece. We examine how long contact effects in intonation persist after contact has ceased, through comparison of the f0 patterns in four generations of AMG speakers with those of their Athenian Greek- and Turkish-speaking contemporaries. The speech of the first-generation of AMG speakers exhibits two patterns in the f0 curve shape and time alignment of the continuation rises, one Athenian-like and one Turkish-like. Over subsequent generations use of the latter diminishes, while the Athenian pattern becomes more frequent, indicating intergenerational change.