Broad focus declaratives in Veneto-Spanish bilinguals: Peak alignment and language contact
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This paper examines peak alignment in Veneto-Spanish bilinguals in the small community of Chipilo, Mexico. We have two goals: First, to provide a description of the peak alignment patterns present in bilingual Chipilo Spanish. As Chipilo Spanish is in contact with a northern Italian variety (Veneto), we hypothesize that changes in peak alignment from monolingual norms, specifically regarding early peak alignment, may be due to transfer from Veneto. Second, we seek to compare the present data, based on controlled speech, to the results of a previous study on semi-spontaneous speech in Chipilo Spanish, contributing to the literature that compares methodologies in intonation research. Our results show that bilinguals demonstrate early peaks in controlled speech, although to a lesser extent than in semi-spontaneous speech. We attribute this to contact with Veneto and a strong sense of ethnolinguistic identity that leads speakers to maintain features of a Chipileño variety of Spanish.
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¿Qué pasaba? Amalia podaba los árboles.
¿Quién estudiaba matemáticas? Josefina estudiaba matemáticas.
¿Qué pasa? Su madre admira la lana.
¿Julio vivía en el sótano? No. Victor vivía en el sótano.
¿Quién era médico? Su primo era médico.
¿Qué pasará? Su hermana retirará la demanda.
¿Qué pasa? El niño añade los rábanos.
¿Qué hacía su primo? Su primo era médico.
¿Qué pasará? Su familia mandará los violines.
¿Qué pasaba? José salía temprano.
¿Marleni salía temprano? No. José salía temprano.
¿Qué pasará? Bernardo venderá los mangos.
¿El charangüísta toca magnífico? No. El guitarrista toca magnífico.
¿Qué pasa? Yolanda domina el castellano.
¿Cuándo venía tu tío? Mi tío venía los sábados.
¿Qué pasaba? El criminal llevaba el ídolo.
¿Quién salía temprano? José salía temprano.
¿Qué pasará? El albañil moverá los barriles.
¿Qué pasa? El vándalo agarra los baldes.
¿Dónde vivía Victor? Victor vivía en el sótano.
¿Su hija comía manzanas? Sí. Su hija comía manzanas.
¿Qué pasaba? El águila guardaba el nido.
¿Qué pasaba? La víbora devoraba los animales.
¿Tomasa estudiaba matemáticas? No. Josefina estudiaba matemáticas.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Linguistic innovations in the immigration context as initial stages of a partially restructured variety: Evidence from SE constructions in the Portuguese of the East Timorese diaspora in Portugal
- Broad focus declaratives in Veneto-Spanish bilinguals: Peak alignment and language contact
- Fine-grained and probabilistic cross-linguistic influence in the pronunciation of cognates: Evidence from corpus-based spontaneous conversation and experimentally elicited data
- Progressive constructions in native-speaker and adult-acquired Spanish
- Cross-modal priming differences between native and nonnative Spanish speakers
- The realization of word-final, preconsonantal /s/ in the Spanish of Mexico City
- Análisis acústico de la vibrante múltiple en el español de Valencia (España)
- Book Review
- Manel Lacorte: The Routledge handbook of Hispanic applied linguistics
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Linguistic innovations in the immigration context as initial stages of a partially restructured variety: Evidence from SE constructions in the Portuguese of the East Timorese diaspora in Portugal
- Broad focus declaratives in Veneto-Spanish bilinguals: Peak alignment and language contact
- Fine-grained and probabilistic cross-linguistic influence in the pronunciation of cognates: Evidence from corpus-based spontaneous conversation and experimentally elicited data
- Progressive constructions in native-speaker and adult-acquired Spanish
- Cross-modal priming differences between native and nonnative Spanish speakers
- The realization of word-final, preconsonantal /s/ in the Spanish of Mexico City
- Análisis acústico de la vibrante múltiple en el español de Valencia (España)
- Book Review
- Manel Lacorte: The Routledge handbook of Hispanic applied linguistics
