DFG-Projekt "The Form and Function of Intonation in Albanian Dialects" (FFIAD)
Principal Investigator:
Prof. Dr. Enkeleida Kapia Bakallbashi
Collaborator:
Plator Gashi. M.A.
FFIAD is concerned with understanding how the form and function of intonation are related in Albanian dialects. In doing so, it combines recent empirical work carried out at IPS (Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany) on the form of intonation of Standard Albanian with a well-established research tradition on Albanian dialectology.
Additionally, the project couples these two areas with the prosody-syntax interface, not only to gain a deeper understanding of the function of prosody, but also to quantify the contribution of intonation and syntax in marking old and new information in communication.
Building upon extensive experience and knowledge that the investigator has gained in over 10 years of research on dialectology, syntax, and, more recently, on intonation and phonetics, the project seeks to generalize from diverse areas of research, which, for the most part, have traditionally been investigated independently of each other.
Publications
Book chapters:
Kapia, E., Harrington, J., and Kleber, F. (in press). An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis of Albanian Prosody. In S. A. Jun (ed.): Prosodic Typology III. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Refereed conference papers:
Brugos, A., and Kapia, E. (2021). Prosodic and Non-Prosodic Cues to Prominence and Boundaries: Evidence from an RPT study in Albanian. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Beijing, China.
Kapia, E., Kleber, F., and Harrington, J. (2020). An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis of Rising Contours in Standard Albanian. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 171-175.
Kapia, E., and Brugos, A. (2019). Perception of prosodic correlates of Topic and Focus in Albanian. Satellite Workshop, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.
Peer-reviewed abstracts:
Kapia, E., and Kleber, F. (2022): Krahasim i sistemit prozodik të shqipes standarde me shqipen e folur një shekull më parë (Comparison of the prosodic system of standard Albanian with speech spoken a century ago). Presentation, International conference Një komb – një gjuhë (One nation – one language), Tiranë, Albania.
Kapia, E., Kleber, F., and Brugos, A. (2022): Discrete and continuous-valued prosodic cues to prominence perception in Albanian. Poster, 3rd International Conference on Prominence in Language, Cologne, Germany.
Brugos, A., and Kapia, E. (2021). Prosodic and non-prosodic cues to prominence and boundaries: evidence from an RPT study in Albanian. Poster, 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Sonderborg, Denmark.
Data
All data connected to this DFG project will be made accessible to researchers upon request. We have collected large data bases of several languages that have been thoroughly transcribed and analysed.
Funding
This research is funded by German Research Foundation, Grant no. 499336853, awarded to Prof. Enkeleida Kapia Bakallbashi
The Form and Function of Intonation in Albanian Dialects (since 2022)
Contact
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Institut für Vergleichende und Indogermansiche Sprachwissenschaft sowie Albanologie
Geschw.-Scholl-Platz 1, Postfach 130
D-80539 München