Hangterjedelem és hangfekvés a magyar és a spanyol eld ntend kérdésekben

This study aims at comparing the average pitch height and the overall pitch range in Spanish and Hungarian yes-no questions. The pitch variation was measured in the whole contour and in the major tonal inflection within the contours. Before obtaining the pitch variation values, the contours had been standardized with Cantero & Font-Rotchés’s method, to remove all insignificant micromelodic variations and the speakers’ idiosyncratic pitch characteristics from the curves. The comparison was made in a corpus consisting of 124 yes-no questions, 66 Spanish and 58 Hungarian utterances, partly read, partly spontaneous. After the analysis, we can see that the Spanish values are considerably higher in all the three fields: average pitch height, overall pitch range, as well as the pitch range found in the major tonal inflections.