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prosodic marking of Verum focus (VF) in Italian, which is
said to be realized with a pitch accent on the finite verb (e.g.
A: Paul has not eaten the banana - B: (No), Paul HAS eaten
the banana!). We tried to discover whether and how Italian
speakers prosodically mark VF when producing full-fledged
sentences using a semi-spontaneous production experiment on
27 speakers. Speech rate and f0 contours were extracted using
automatic data processing tools and were subsequently
analysed using Functional Data Analysis (FDA), which
allowed for automatic visualization of patterns in the contour
shapes. Our results show that the postfocal region of VF
sentences exhibit faster speech rate and lower f0 compared to
non-VF cases. However, an expected consistent difference of
f0 effect on the focal region of the VF sentence was not found
in this analysis.
