Labastía, Leopoldo Omar]]> Dabrowski, Alejandra]]> Guglielmone, María de los Ángeles]]>
Labastía, L. O., Dabrowski, A. E., & Guglielmonelmone, M. de los A. (2013). Prosody and discourse structure in Buenos Aires Spanish. Revista Leitura. Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduacao em Letras e Linguistica da Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2(52), 228-247.
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Abstract
This 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* L%); (b) low (L* L%); (c) rising-falling (L+H*+L L%). All three can be used to assert a given state of affairs, but each encodes a different pragmatic meaning, associated with the strength and emphasis with which the state of affairs is communicated and with the type of cognitive effect to be achieved by the utterance. The prosodic analysis is carried out using the Autosegmental-Metrical approach, and the pragmatic analysis follows Relevance Theory.]]>
Labastía, Leopoldo Omar]]>
Phonology]]>
ABSTRACT

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.]]>

ABSTRACT

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.]]>
Arana, Valeria Fernanda]]> Blázquez, Bettiana Andrea]]> Espinosa, Gonzalo Eduardo]]> Valls, Lucía Soledad]]> ]]>
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.
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Linguistics]]> Lingüística]]> Labastía, Leopoldo Omar]]> Dabrowski, Alejandra]]> Valls, Lucía Soledad]]> Tassile, Valentín]]> ]]>
Labastía, Leopoldo Omar, Dabrowski, Alejandra, Valls, Lucía Soledad, & Tassile, Valentín. (2015). Configuraciones nucleares descendentes en el español rioplatense y su significado pragmático. RASAL Lingüística, 155-181.
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