Declarative utterances in Buenos Aires Spanish
Autoría
Labastía, Leopoldo Omar;
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
Collection
Geolocation
Publisher
John Benjamins
Date
2016
Bibliographic Citation
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.
Extent
pp. 207-226
Identifier
bibliotecadelenguas.uncoma.edu.ar/items/show/170
ISBN 9789027258052
Format
pdf
License
CC BY-NC-SA
Is Part Of
Armstrong, M., Henriksen, N., & Vanrell, M. (Eds.), Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches through different subfields (pp. 207-226). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016