AbstractThis chapter aims to explore an aspect of the interface between prosody and pragmatics by examining the contribution of intonation to the process of utterance interpretation in spontaneous speech. Buenos Aires Spanish has three nuclear pitch accent + boundary tone configurations associated with declarative utterances: (a) high-falling (H+L*…

A la luz del Modelo Métrico-Autosegmental de la entonación y su aplicación al español rioplatense, el sistema entonativo de esta variedad utiliza tres configuraciones tonales en los enunciados declarativos: H+L* L% (descendente alta), L* L% (descendente baja) y L+H*+L L% (ascendente-descendente o tritonal) (Gabriel et al. 2010; Gabriel et al.…

Ponencia presentada en XIV Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística, organizado por la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, 22 al 25 de abril de 2014

Los lingüistas concuerdan en afirmar que las lenguas poseen tres tipos de recurso lingüístico para marcar la estructura informativa: la sintaxis, la morfología y la entonación. Tradicionalmente se ha sostenido que el español es una lengua en la que se marca la estructura informativa por medio de recursos sintácticos, y en la que la entonación no…

The aim of this research is to investigate the prosodic realization of two political discourse practices, a speech and an interview, by the same speaker. The different nuclear tone configurations and the segmentation of speech in prosodic units are studied: intermediate phrases, intonational phrases and phrase sequences. In particular, the role of…

Teaching pronunciation in language courses has traditionally followed two approaches: the intuitive-imitative approach and the analytic-linguistic approach. The former consists in reproducing the target language on the basis of a good model without any explicit instruction. The latter proposes reflection on pronunciation features through such tools…

Argentinian Spanish intonation has been the focus of intensive research, at least since the second half of the 20th century. Overall, this research has centred around one variety, i.e. Buenos Aires or ‘porteño’ Spanish, and on one type of sentence, namely declaratives, with a particular emphasis on broad focus declaratives. We also draw on this…