Chapter 7. Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties
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David Korfhagen
Abstract
This chapter studies declarative intonation using the Autosegmental-Metrical model of intonational phonology in four Afro-Hispanic varieties: Chinchano, Chocó, Chota Valley, and Yungueño. We analyze the inventory of pitch accents, intermediate phrase boundary tones and intonational phrase boundary tones in declarative utterances extracted from spontaneous-speech corpora. The intonational inventories of these Afro-Hispanic varieties are significantly reduced in comparison with what has been observed in the declaratives of other native varieties of Spanish. Our data imply that speakers’ patterns are the result of a cross-generational transmission of simplified intonational features, stemming from second-language acquisition strategies rather than substrate influences.
Abstract
This chapter studies declarative intonation using the Autosegmental-Metrical model of intonational phonology in four Afro-Hispanic varieties: Chinchano, Chocó, Chota Valley, and Yungueño. We analyze the inventory of pitch accents, intermediate phrase boundary tones and intonational phrase boundary tones in declarative utterances extracted from spontaneous-speech corpora. The intonational inventories of these Afro-Hispanic varieties are significantly reduced in comparison with what has been observed in the declaratives of other native varieties of Spanish. Our data imply that speakers’ patterns are the result of a cross-generational transmission of simplified intonational features, stemming from second-language acquisition strategies rather than substrate influences.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Contemporary research on Latin American Spanish dialectology 1
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Section I. Aspects of morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation
- Chapter 1. Between vos and usted 11
- Chapter 2. “Feel really Uruguayan” 29
- Chapter 3. Variable constraints on se lo(s) in Mexican Spanish 47
- Chapter 4. Variation and pragmatic enrichment 69
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Section II. Production, perception and sound system contact-driven restructuring
- Chapter 5. Social perception of the variable realization of /tʃ/ in Chile 97
- Chapter 6. Complex attitudes towards two sociolinguistic variables and their social meanings 125
- Chapter 7. Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties 155
- Chapter 8. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’ 181
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Section III. Language ideologies, business and pedagogical implications
- Chapter 9. Español neutro and marketing in Latin American and U.S. audiovisual media 207
- Chapter 10. Language policy and education in Peru 227
- Chapter 11. Twenty years of Guaraní-Spanish bilingual education in Paraguay 241
- Chapter 12. Bad grammar 275
- Index 289
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Contemporary research on Latin American Spanish dialectology 1
-
Section I. Aspects of morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation
- Chapter 1. Between vos and usted 11
- Chapter 2. “Feel really Uruguayan” 29
- Chapter 3. Variable constraints on se lo(s) in Mexican Spanish 47
- Chapter 4. Variation and pragmatic enrichment 69
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Section II. Production, perception and sound system contact-driven restructuring
- Chapter 5. Social perception of the variable realization of /tʃ/ in Chile 97
- Chapter 6. Complex attitudes towards two sociolinguistic variables and their social meanings 125
- Chapter 7. Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties 155
- Chapter 8. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’ 181
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Section III. Language ideologies, business and pedagogical implications
- Chapter 9. Español neutro and marketing in Latin American and U.S. audiovisual media 207
- Chapter 10. Language policy and education in Peru 227
- Chapter 11. Twenty years of Guaraní-Spanish bilingual education in Paraguay 241
- Chapter 12. Bad grammar 275
- Index 289
