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Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions
Edited by Alfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 26] 2020
► pp. 229–248

Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation

Analysis and implications

| University of Wisconsin–Madison
| University of Texas at Austin
| University of Wisconsin–Madison

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.

Keywords: Afro-Peruvian Spanish, intonation, pitch accent, phrase boundary, conventionalized second language acquisition process
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
  • References
Published online: 13 May 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.26.11but
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