Abstract
The article discusses prosodic constructions typical for spontaneous speech which are
distinctive signal and formal criteria showing the personage voice in the free indirect speech. The most
obvious of them are interrogative and exclamative constructions because they have punctuation marks
which help the reader to distinguish the narrative subject in the overall polyphonic structure of a literary
work. The results of this research could be used as a didactic material in the classes of Italian language
teaching.

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