Intonation in Spanish

O’Rourke, Erin

doi:10.1002/9781118228098.ch9

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“…In Castilian Spanish, nuclear accents tend to have a low pitch accent (L*) under broad focus, and rising (L+H*) under narrow focus (Estebas-Vilaplana & Prieto 2010). However, in Spanish contact varieties, including in contact with Basque, prenuclear accents tend to have earlier peaks under broad focus, as well (Elordieta 2003, O'Rourke 2012.…”

Section: Prosodic Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Prosodic correlates of mirative and new information focus in Spanish wh-in-situ questions

González

2023

A Half Century of Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

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This paper examines the prosodic correlates of focus in two types of wh-in-situ questions in Spanish: information-seeking (INF), and echo-surprise (SUR). We hypothesize that they will have different intonational properties since the former are associated with new-information focus, while the latter are compatible with mirative focus since they express unexpectedness and surprise (Badan & Crocco 2019). A total of 280 sentences from a contextualized elicitation task were analyzed in Praat following SpToBI conventions. Results show that INF and SUR have similar melodic contours, involving a rise through the first pre-nuclear accent, declination, and a steep final rise on the wh-phrase. However, SUR questions have a higher nuclear peak and larger focal tonal range than INF questions. Our results show clear scaling differences in the nuclear configuration consistent with a difference between new-information and mirative focus, which can be phonologically analyzed as nuclear upstep in SUR (L+¡H*), unlike in INF (L+H*).

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Section: Prosodic Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Prosodic correlates of mirative and new information focus in Spanish wh-in-situ questions

González

2023

A Half Century of Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

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“…These were three varieties from Europe, Madrid (Estebas-Vilaplana and Prieto 2010), Cantabria (López Bobo and Cuevas Alonso 2010), and Las Palmas (Cabrera Abreu and Vizcaino Ortega 2010) and seven from America including the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic (Willis 2010), Puerto Rico (Armstrong 2010), Mérida in the Andean region of Venezuela (Astruc et al 2010), Quito in the Andean region of Ecuador (O'Rourke 2010), Santiago de Chile (Ortiz et al 2010), Buenos Aires (Gabriel et al 2010), and Mexico DF (De la Mota et al 2010). For a more extensive comparison, see O'Rourke (2012) and Hualde and Prieto (2015).…”

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Basic Intonation Patterns of Galician Spanish

Pérez Castillejo,

de la Fuente Iglesias

2024

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This paper presents an inventory of pitch accents and boundary tones in Galician Spanish (GS), a variety spoken in Northwestern Spain. Research so far has focused on explaining GS intonation features as transfer phenomena from Galician, the vernacular Romance language in the region. Because of this, previous studies have often included Galician L1 speakers, for whom transfer is expected when speaking Spanish L2. However, GS is the single L1 of half the children in Galicia, and it is spoken almost exclusively by about a quarter of Galicians. Our study focuses on this population and investigates the relative frequency and distribution of tonal units in GS when direct transfer from Galician is unlikely. A corpus of 1706 sentences (statements, questions, imperatives, and vocatives in neutral and biased contexts) was obtained from 28 participants through a discourse completion task. Results showed that patterns previously attributed to direct transfer from Galician L1 (for example, upstepped final accents in neutral declaratives or falling contours in unmarked interrogatives) are widespread in GS as L1. Findings also show commonalities with other L1 Spanish varieties, both in Europe (for example, L* L% as the unmarked declarative ending) and America (for example, the L* + H prenuclear accent of Caribbean varieties).

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Relevance and attribution in the intonation of Gran Canaria Spanish interrogatives

Vizcaíno-Ortega¹,

Abreu²

2012

Journal of Pragmatics

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Intonation in Spanish

Cited by 25 publications

References 48 publications

Prosodic correlates of mirative and new information focus in Spanish wh-in-situ questions

Prosodic correlates of mirative and new information focus in Spanish wh-in-situ questions

Basic Intonation Patterns of Galician Spanish

Relevance and attribution in the intonation of Gran Canaria Spanish interrogatives

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