Diachronic prosody of a contact variety

Pešková, Andrea; Feldhausen, Ingo; Kireva, Elena; Gabriel, Christoph

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“…Although, in the overwhelming majority of Spanish dialects, prenuclear pitch accents (i.e., those preceding the nuclear syllable) are realized as a late-rising F0 movement with the peak aligned after the temporal limits of the metrically strong syllable (Prieto & Roseano, 2010), Italian prenuclear accents are characterized by an early rise with the F0 peak aligned with the right edge of the stressed syllable (Grice et al, 2005). Indeed, the property of early peak alignment in prenuclear syllables has also been attested in the Argentinean contact variety Porteño (Colantoni & Gurlekian, 2004; Gabriel et al, 2010; Pešková, Feldhausen, Kireva, & Gabriel, 2012). It is worth noting in this context that early peak alignment is used in many other Spanish dialects for various pragmatic functions (e.g., for narrow focus marking in Castilian Spanish; see Face, 2002).…”

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Prosodic Transfer in Learner and Contact Varieties

Gabriel

Kireva

2014

Stud Second Lang Acquis

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A remarkable example of Spanish-Italian contact is the Spanish variety spoken in Buenos Aires (Porteño), which is said to be prosodically "Italianized" due to migration-induced contact. The change in Porteño prosody has been interpreted as a result of transfer from the fi rst language (L1) that occurred when Italian immigrants learned Spanish as a second language (L2; McMahon, 2004 ). This article aims to examine if and to what extent prosodic features that are typical of Italian show up in Porteño and in L2 Castilian Spanish produced by Italian native speakers. Specifi cally, we investigated speech rhythm and the realization of yes-no questions in Porteño and L2 Castilian Spanish in comparison to Italian and L1 Castilian Spanish. We hypothesized that Italian, Porteño, and L2 Castilian Spanish would exhibit similar rhythm patterns, showing high values for the percentage of vocalic material, the variation coeffi cient of vocalic intervals, and the speech-rate-normalized pairwise variability index

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Prosodic Transfer in Learner and Contact Varieties

Gabriel

Kireva

2014

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“…Apart from the fact that long-term prosodic sources are not available due to technical requirements, research on phonological change has concentrated on segments in Romance languages. Despite some recent work on supra-segmental phonology (Hualde, 2003; 2004; Pešková et al, 2012; Gabriel, 2014), diachronic research on French prosody is largely underrepresented 6 . A second issue is that prosodic signs do not have the same referential meanings as lexical forms do, i.e.…”

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Lexical and prosodic routinization in conceptional orality: conversational self-reformulation in French

Stahnke

2017

French Language Studies

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The present study investigates the functions and forms of conversational self-reformulation in spoken French. (Self-)Reformulations in general are a typical feature of unplanned and spontaneous conceptional orality (as opposed to conceptional distance; Koch and Oesterreicher, 1985). They exhibit retrospective modification of a reference expression, which is semantically equivalent in paraphrases and semantically different in corrections. The latter are therefore communicatively more problematic with regard to discourse intervention and turn-taking. As for the linguistic marking of self-reformulation, paraphrases are preferably introduced by lexically polyfunctional markers and prosodic deaccentuation, while corrections are marked by lexically monofunctional and prosodically overaccented structures. Since the accessibility to context-dependent forms is specifically related to conceptional orality, a more important linguistic marking of self-reformulation is hypothesized to occur in conceptional orality when compared to conceptional distance. The results of an empirical study contrasting two conceptionally different corpora suggest a generalization of paraphrastic markers in conceptional orality. This tendency is attributed to speaker-strategic routinization in which corrections are re-marked as paraphrases in order to avoid conversational intervention and, as a consequence, turn-taking. When taken over by other speakers, this routine may cause variation and, eventually, linguistic change.

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“…Prosody has been acknowledged as sensitive to change and "wholesale convergence" (Matras 2009), with numerous studies demonstrating its transformation in linguistic contact areas within the Spanish-speaking world (see Grünke 2022; Pešková 2023a for overviews). One of the seminal works in this field is by Colantoni and Gurlekian (2004), who discuss the convergence system in Buenos Aires Spanish, influenced by various Italian varieties due to massive immigration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries (see also Gabriel et al 2013;Pešková et al 2012;Gabriel and Kireva 2014). The linguistic proximity between Spanish and Italian, along with various sociocultural and linguistic factors, very likely accelerated the development of this new variety (Colantoni and Gurlekian 2004, p. 107).…”

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In the Echoes of Guarani: Exploring the Intonation of Statements in Paraguayan Spanish

Pešková

2023

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This explorative study examines intonation contours in neutral and non-neutral statements of Paraguayan Spanish, a variety shaped by extensive contact with Guarani, a co-official language of Paraguay. Paraguayan Spanish displays both lexical and syntactic borrowings from Guarani, along with innovative intonation patterns not found in other Spanish varieties. Previous but still limited research on yes/no and wh-questions in this variety suggests the emergence of a unique intonational system, possibly of a hybrid nature, in both Spanish monolinguals and Spanish–Guarani bilinguals. To date, no comprehensive description of intonation patterns in Paraguayan Spanish statements exists. The present study addresses this gap by analyzing data obtained through a Discourse Completion Task, covering broad-focus statements, contrastive focus, exclamatives, and statements of the obvious. Data were collected in 2014 from two monolingual speakers, eleven bilingual Spanish-dominant speakers, and eight bilingual Guarani-dominant speakers. The intonation is formalized using the Autosegmental–Metrical model of intonational phonology and the Spanish Tones and Break Indices labeling system. The findings reveal three main realizations of nuclear accents (L+H*, H+L*, and innovative >H+L*) in neutral and non-neutral declarative sentences, lengthening of syllables, diverse syntactical strategies, and lexical borrowings. The study contributes to the understanding of a lesser-studied Spanish variety and offers insights into theoretical aspects of contact linguistics.

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Diachronic prosody of a contact variety

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Prosodic Transfer in Learner and Contact Varieties

Prosodic Transfer in Learner and Contact Varieties

Lexical and prosodic routinization in conceptional orality: conversational self-reformulation in French

In the Echoes of Guarani: Exploring the Intonation of Statements in Paraguayan Spanish

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