Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation
Analysis and implications
This study offers an analysis of Afro-Peruvian
Spanish (APS) declarative intonation. Our findings indicate that
this dialect presents intonational features that diverge from other
varieties of Spanish. It shows minimal downstepping across
utterances and a predominant use of the L+H* pitch accent, even in
prenuclear position, where L+>H* is more commonly cited in
neutral contexts. At intermediate phrase edges, the most common APS
boundary tone is L- rather than H-, which is usually employed in
other varieties to indicate the continuation of a thought. Our
results evidence a simplified set of phonological targets, which are
analyzed as the byproduct of SLA processes that were subsequently
conventionalized and nativized at the community level by later
generations of APS speakers.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background on intonational phonology: Phrase boundaries and pitch accents in Spanish
- 3.Data collection methodology and procedure for analysis
- 4.Phonological account
- 4.1Prenuclear pitch accents
- 4.2Nuclear configurations
- 4.2.1Non-terminal ips
- 4.2.2IP-nuclear configurations
- 5.Implications
- 6.Concluding remarks
-
Notes
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