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Is there a prosodic accommodation in the final falling contours of Pola Siero’s absolute interrogatives?

Bleortu, Cristina (2022). Is there a prosodic accommodation in the final falling contours of Pola Siero’s absolute interrogatives? Onomázein, neXI:140-150.

Abstract

This paper investigates the final Pola de Siero’s contours in absolute interrogatives. We carried out 24 surveys of situations using the methodology of Interactive Atlas of Spanish Intonation, with examples of various intonation contours, which are employed to encode different semantic nuances. The 24 subjects of our corpus were selected taking into account three social variables (age, education and sex)2. We aim to address one question in this study: is there a correlation between social factors and the final contours of Pola de Siero in absolute interrogatives? We found that 21 informants in our survey show a tendency towards the final falling contours in absolute interrogatives, a salient feature of northern Spanish, which contrasts with the final rises in Standard Peninsular Spanish (three informants). As a consequence of this, we could say that this prosodic feature is a relevant one in our corpus and that it seems there is not an Asturian prosodic accommodation in absolute interrogatives; this pattern is not acquired by Spanish speakers who have family in Burgos or Valladolid.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Romance Studies
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
Dewey Decimal Classification:800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
470 Latin & Italic languages
410 Linguistics
440 French & related languages
460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
450 Italian, Romanian & related languages
Uncontrolled Keywords:information structure, nuclear constituent, psycholinguistic IS model
Language:English
Date:2022
Deposited On:30 Jan 2023 14:49
Last Modified:28 Dec 2024 02:42
Publisher:Santiago Instituto de Letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
ISSN:0717-1285
Additional Information:Special Issue XI – Current Approaches to Romanian and Spanish Intonation
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.ne11.02
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