We investigate the intonation of information-seeking and rhetorical questions in Icelandic. The results for the information-seeking questions largely confirm observations in previous literature based mostly on introspective data: Polar questions are mostly realized with late rise nuclear accents where the peak aligns after a stressed syllable (L*+H), wh-questions with peak accents (H*); wh-questions often start high (%H, H*). Illocution types (that is, information-seeking versus rhetorical questions) differ in nuclear pitch accent types and in the type and frequency of prenuclear accents. The default boundary tone is low (L%) across question types and illocution types. The results are discussed against the background of previous findings with respect to the relationship between question and illocution type, and prosody.*

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冰岛语信息搜索和修辞问题的语调

我们调查冰岛语中寻求信息和修辞问题的语调。信息搜索问题的结果在很大程度上证实了先前文献中主要基于内省数据的观察结果：极地问题主要通过后期核重音实现，其中峰值在重读音节 (L*+H) 之后对齐，什么- 带有尖峰口音的问题（H*）；什么-问题通常从高开始（％H，H *）。口音类型（即寻求信息与修辞问题）在核音调重音类型以及核前重音的类型和频率方面有所不同。跨问题类型和言辞类型的默认边界音低 (L%)。这些结果是在先前关于问题和言辞类型以及韵律之间关系的研究结果的背景下进行讨论的。 *