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.…

En este trabajo se analiza la entonación como un fenómeno de interfaz entre la fonología entonativa y la pragmática. Para el análisis pragmático, se recurre a la Teoría de la Relevancia (Sperber & Wilson 1995, 2004) y su aplicación al estudio del fenómeno prosódico (Wilson & Wharton 2006). El análisis de la prosodia se realiza en el marco…

Abstract:The aim of this work is to identify the difficulties that Spanish learners of English may have when confronted with the L2 intonation. The different tone choices made by native speakers of Spanish in North Patagonia, Argentina, are analysed in the light of the Autosegmental-Metrical framework (LADD, 1996) and the Relevance Theory (SPERBER…

It has often been claimed that Spanish tends to keep the nucleus at the end of the intonation phrase and resorts mainly to word order variation for marking focus. This paper aims to explore cases of early nucleus placement in Argentinian Spanish, which reveal that defocalisation is possible with or without a contrastive interpretation. These cases…

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*…