In this work, intonation is analysed as a phenomenon at the interface between intonational phonology and pragmatics. The pragmatic analysis is carried out in the framework of the Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson 1995, 2004) and its application to the study of prosodic aspects (Wilson & Wharton 2006). Prosody is studied in terms of the Autosegmental and Metrical theory based on the analysis carried out by Gabriel et al. (2010) on the Spanish of Buenos Aires. In addition, intonation is conceived of as a set of procedural instructions, in the sense that it presents the listener with instructions as to how to process the information (House 2006). Tone choices are compared between Argentinean Spanish from Patagonia and the English spoken in the southeast of England, with the purpose of finding similarities and differences in the prosodic patterns (tone choices, pitch and boundary tones) present in non-conclusive declarative sentences. The differences that have been found in terms of the type and form of tonal configurations might function as the starting point to identify possible difficulties that speakers of English as a second language may encounter.]]>2024-02-21T11:19:30+00:00
Arana, V. F., Blázquez, B. A., Espinosa, G. E., & Valls, L. S. (2011). Estudio comparativo de las selecciones tonales en español e inglés : bases para una aplicación metodológica. RASAL Lingüística, 1/2, 27-39.