Percepção de Padrões Entoacionais do Alemão: um Estudo Preliminar

Resumo

This paper presents and discusses the first results of a perceptual test conducted to check whether or not German native speakers can discriminate among four intonational categories set up in a production experiment. As we show here, the results do not lead us to an answer for our research question. Instead, they suggest the need of incorporating other variables to the test rather than the prosodic ones