ResumenA fala es una lengua galaico-portuguesa que se habla en Sierra de Gata (Cáceres, Extremadura) y se compone de tres variedades: valverdeiru, lagarteiru y mañegu. Se ha estudiado principalmente el origen de esta lengua, pero los estudios descriptivos escasean. Nuestro objetivo es determinar la entonación de a fala y sus variedades, concretamente los tonemas más frecuentes en las declarativas e interrogativas absolutas y parciales, rellenando ese vacío de conocimiento. Para estudiar esta lengua se ha grabado a 12 hablantes en habla semi-espontánea y habla leída para, en un segundo momento, analizar la entonación según la teoría métri-co-autosegmental. Los resultados que hemos obtenido muestran una clara preferencia de ciertos tonemas, concretamente, (L+)H* L%, con respecto a otros en las tres modalidades oracionales. Además, hemos observado diferencias entre habla semi-espontánea y habla leída. En habla leída, los falantes muestran unos contornos muy parecidos al español, lengua en la que se han educado. También a raíz de los resultados, observamos que se establecen entonativamente dos grupos: por un lado, el valverdeiru, más castellanizado y, por otro, el lagarteiru y el mañegu, más galaico-portugueses. Palabras clave AbstractA Fala is the name of an Ibero-Romance language of the Galician-Portuguese branch located in Sierra de Gata (Cáceres, Extremadura). It has three dialects: Valverdeiru, Lagarteiru and Mañegu. There are not many descriptive studies of the language. Our goal is to determine the intonation of A Fala and its varieties, specifically the most frequent nuclear contours in declaratives, yes-no questions and wh-questions. We recorded 12 speakers in semi-spontaneous and read speech, and analyzed the main intonational contours using Autosegmental-Metrical Theory. The results show a preference for specific nuclear contours in the three sentence types, (L+)H* L%. There are differences between semi-spontaneous and read speech related to the latter's formal character. In read speech, speakers present nuclear contours similar to those found in Central Spanish, their language of education. Pending a detailed comparison with Spanish, Galician and Portuguese, it appears that there are two intonation groups among the Fala dialects: the Valverdeiru variety displays nuclear contours that are closer to those of Central Spanish, while those found in Lagarteiru and Mañegu are more similar to the Galician-Portuguese type.
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