000K utf8 1100 $c2024 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2025-00539-9 2051 10.1017/S0332586522000014 3000 Dehé, Nicole 3010 Wochner, Daniela 4000 Voice quality and speaking rate in Icelandic rhetorical questions$hCambridge University Press (CUP) [Dehé, Nicole] 4030 $nCambridge University Press (CUP) 4209 In this paper, we show that Icelandic uses the phonetic parameters of speaking rate, duration and voice quality (VQ) to distinguish between information-seeking questions (ISQs) and rhetorical questions (RQs). Specifically, durations are longer (speaking rate is slower) and nonmodal VQs are used more in RQs than in ISQs. Our findings for temporal parameters fit in with previous studies on the prosody of RQs in various languages. With respect to VQ, Icelandic differs, for example, from German and English in the location of breathy voice in the utterance (utterance-initial in German and English, utterance-final in Icelandic). We interpret the utterance-final position of breathiness in Icelandic RQs as a potential compensating strategy for the lack of phonological cues, i.e. boundary tones. 4950 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586522000014$xR$3Volltext$534 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2025-00539-9$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00006075 5051 400 5051 439 5550 duration 5550 Icelandic 5550 prosody 5550 rhetorical questions 5550 speaking rate 5550 voice quality