On the nature of cross-linguistic transfer: A case study of Andean Spanish

Muntendam, Antje

doi:10.1017/s1366728912000247

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“…Another interesting dialectal difference found was with respect to peak alignment, with TS showing late peak whereas BAS has early peak. Moreover, we found that TS intonational implementation of interrogatives, both in terms of alignment and pitch contour, is similar to previous findings on Andean Spanish (Muntendam 2013;Muntendam and Torreira 2016;O'Rourke 2005). Finally, this work provides materials for future research to investigate which variation is phonetic and which is phonological in intonation systems.…”

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“…For example, previous work on intonation in the Andean Spanish of Peru (Muntendam 2013;Muntendam and Torreira 2016;O'Rourke 2005) found prosodic transfer from Quechua to Spanish, and research in the morphosyntactic features of Andean Spanish has reported higher rates of present perfect use across perfective contexts (Escobar 1997;Howe 2006) than other Latin American varieties such as Mexico (Schwenter and Torres Cacoullos 2008) as well as innovative uses such as evidentiality marking (Howe 2006). Likewise, previous work on TS morphosyntactic variation (García and Caracoche 1977;Martorell de Laconi 2001;V.…”

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A Description of Tucumán Spanish Intonation in Argentina

Terán

Ortega-Llebaría

2017

Open Linguistics

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This paper documents for the first time the intonation system of Tucumán Spanish, an understudied variety of Argentinian Spanish. Semi-spontaneous speech illustrating the intonation of main sentence types, i.e. broad focus statements, partial and absolute interrogatives, and imperatives and vocatives, was elicited from 31 native speakers of Tucumán Spanish via an adapted version of the Argentinian Intonation Survey (Prieto and Roseano, 2009-2013). The two authors listened to the recordings and transcribed them using the Tones and Break Indexes conventions (ToBI) (Beckman et al. 2002, Prieto and Roseano 2010, Hualde and Prieto 2015. Transcriptions of prenuclear and nuclear configurations together with their respective frequencies allowed both an appreciation of the most used configurations within each sentence type along with detailed variation at the phonetic level. For example, yes/no questions were consistently realized with a low nuclear pitch accent L* and an ascending boundary tone. However, there was variation in the height of the boundary tones yielding the frequent contour L* ¡H%, and the less frequent L* H%. Altogether, these detailed patterns document the systematic phonetic variation of the intonation system of TS and provide a basis for future research to determine the phonological status of this variation.

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A Description of Tucumán Spanish Intonation in Argentina

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Ortega-Llebaría

2017

Open Linguistics

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“…Face, 2000;Vanrell & Fernández-Soriano, to appear). It is only more recently that there has been experimental work looking at the interaction of prosody and word ordering in IS realization in Spanish (Face, 2000;Face & D'Imperio, 2005;Feldhausen & Vanrell, 2014Gabriel, 2010;Gabriel, Feldhausen, & Pesková, 2009;Hoot, 2012;Muntendam, 2009Muntendam, , 2013Vanrell & Fernández Soriano, 2013;Vanrell & Fernández-Soriano, to appear). This work has revealed considerable variation in the marking of IS between varieties of Spanish.…”

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The interplay of information structure, semantics, prosody, and word ordering in Spanish intransitives

Calhoun

Cruz

Olssen

2018

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive sentences in Venezuelan Spanish. Unaccusative verbs in Spanish are said to be more likely to be subject final (VS order) than unergative verbs, while in languages like English, this is marked with stress shift (i.e., Sv, caps show the nuclear stress). It has long been contended, however, that the semantic factors underlying split intransitivity actually affect information structure, rather than syntax directly. If so, then the effect of verbal semantics on word ordering/nuclear stress placement should be able to be overridden by information structure. Venezuelan Spanish speakers described pictures using a printed unaccusative or unergative verb in response to a question manipulating the information structure type of the subject, i.e., broad focus, theme, QUD-focus, or contrastive focus. Results showed that QUD-and contrastively focused subjects were more likely to carry nuclear stress. Subject stress was also more likely for unaccusatives, but this effect was weaker. Overall stress shift was much more frequent than subject final placement, with neither information structure type nor verb type affecting the likelihood of either response type. These results raise challenges for standard assumptions about the relationship between information structure and unaccusativity, and between final subject placement and stress shift.

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“…Phonological and lexical elements are commonly transferred. Syntactic transfer does not seem to occur as frequently; it has been demonstrated that contact-induced change that at first glance appeared to involve syntax is often the result of a pragmatic influence (Muntendam, 2009(Muntendam, , 2013Silva-Corvalán, 2008).…”

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The prosody of focus in the Spanish of Quechua-Spanish bilinguals: A case study on noun phrases

Rijswijk

Muntendam

2012

International Journal of Bilingualism

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This study examines the prosody of focus in the Spanish of 16 Quechua-Spanish bilinguals near Cusco, Peru. Data come from a dialogue game that involved noun phrases consisting of a noun and an adjective. The questions in the game elicited broad focus, contrastive focus on the noun (non-final position) and contrastive focus on the adjective (final position). The phonetic analysis in Praat included peak alignment, peak height, local range and duration of the stressed syllable and word. The study revealed that Cusco Spanish differs from other Spanish varieties. In other Spanish varieties, contrastive focus is marked by early peak alignment, whereas broad focus involves a late peak on the non-final word. Furthermore, in other Spanish varieties contrastive focus is indicated by a higher F0 maximum, a wider local range, post-focal pitch reduction and a longer duration of the stressed syllable/word. For Cusco Spanish no phonological contrast between early and late peak alignment was found. However, peak alignment on the adjective in contrastive focus was significantly earlier than in the two other contexts. For women, similar results were found for the noun in contrastive focus. An additional prominence-lending feature marking contrastive focus concerned duration of the final word. Furthermore, the results revealed a higher F0 maximum for broad focus than for contrastive focus. The findings suggest a prosodic change, which is possibly due to contact with Quechua. The study contributes to research on information structure, prosody and contact-induced language change

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On the nature of cross-linguistic transfer: A case study of Andean Spanish

Cited by 61 publications

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A Description of Tucumán Spanish Intonation in Argentina

A Description of Tucumán Spanish Intonation in Argentina

The interplay of information structure, semantics, prosody, and word ordering in Spanish intransitives

The prosody of focus in the Spanish of Quechua-Spanish bilinguals: A case study on noun phrases

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