Declarative utterances in Buenos Aires Spanish

Resumen

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.

Archivos
fcb37230c85d64c12c2ae564a5b4b1ba.pdf

Editor

John Benjamins

Fecha

2016

Referencia bibliográfica

Labastía, L. O. (2016). Declarative utterances in Buenos Aires Spanish. En Armstrong, M., Henriksen, N., & Vanrell, M. (Eds.), Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches through different subfields (pp. 207-226). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Extensión

pp. 207-226

Identificador

bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/items/show/170
ISBN 9789027258052

Formato

pdf

Licencia

CC BY-NC-SA

Es Parte De

Armstrong, M., Henriksen, N., & Vanrell, M. (Eds.), Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches through different subfields (pp. 207-226). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016