| This paper investigates the role of pitch in the organization of broadcast news discourse. It specifically deals with three intonational variables: pitch range, pitch reset, and boundary tone. Pitch range will be examined on both the global and local levels of news structure, in order to verify whether it is used as a means of characterizing overall news structure, and as an indicator of news section boundary. The other two variables, pitch reset and boundary pitch movement will only be investigated on the local level as possible news boundary predictors. This paper is structured as follows: first, a general literature review is provided. Second, related methodological issues and overview of data are covered. The research method combines both the auditory and instrumental approach to process the recording, and then quantitative analysis is applied to the statistical data. Third, a general discussion of the research findings, which support the hypothesis that these features play an important role in the display of news segmentation at different levels. |
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