The intonation of declarative questions in Northern British English varieties in spontaneous speech

In this study, we analyse a sample of 76 utterances drawn from corpus spontaneous speech the north England. The selected statements present declarative structure with different pragmatic functions (yes/no questions, echo tag and rhetorical questions). objective study is to observe describe intonation questions in English England speech. Likewise, pertinent bibliographic review carried out for its subsequent discussion view results obtained. analysis Praat, through Melodic Analysis Speech method (CANTERO, 2002) that allows extraction stylized, quantifiable comparable melodic curves. As result analysis, obtain five can define as rising (21%), falling (50%), rising-falling (13%), final inflection raised nucleus (4%), declination (12%).