INSTRUMENTS FOR PROCESSING ACOUSTIC DATA IN THE PROJECT THE CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF ROMANIAN AND SPANISH INTONATION. A SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH (SOROES)

This paper aims to present the tools employed to achieve a contrastive analysis of Romanian and Spanish language intonation, at the methodological level, in the project The Contrastive Analysis of Romanian and Spanish Intonation. A Sociolinguistic Approach (SoRoEs). The project addresses the sociolinguistic dimension of intonation in Romanian and Spanish languages, aimed at identifying specific elements and lines of continuity that we recorded in both Romance languages. One goal of the research is to achieve a digitized corpus for both languages taken into consideration. It will provide support and tools for further contrastive analysis, getting a real insight into the structure and dynamics of intonation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our analytical approach is to establish the sociolinguistic patterns specific to the two Romance varieties types of utterances investigated and their distribution in space. To identify the central tendency in our data set we have to determine what type of inferential statistical methods we should use. We will use tests of significance to make reasonable extrapolations from our corpus using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences).