Chapter published in:
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 28] 2020
► pp. 207–226

Chapter 8
Afro-Peruvian Spanish intonation

A case of contact-induced language change

| University of Memphis
| University of Wisconsin-Madison
| University of Texas at Austin, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Foro Latinoamericano de Antropología del Derecho
This paper provides an analysis of Afro-Peruvian Spanish (APS) declarative intonation. APS is an Afro-Hispanic vernacular spoken across some rural villages in the Province of Chincha, coastal Peru. Results indicate that APS does not follow declarative intonation patterns found in most normative varieties of Spanish. In particular, it shows lower rates of downstepping; it presents systematic peak alignment at the word level (both in nuclear and prenuclear positions); and it is characterized by L- boundary tones at the intermediate phrase edges (rather than H- configurations). We analyze these results as the byproduct of contact-induced change, which led to the reduction of Spanish phonological targets in the APS grammar and to a subsequent reconfiguration of its prosodic system.
Keywords: Afro-Peruvian Spanish, prosody, intonation, contact-induced change
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Intonational phonology in Spanish
  • 3.Motivation and research questions
  • 4.Data collection methodology and procedure for analysis
    • 4.1Data collection methodology
    • 4.2Data analysis
  • 5.Results
    • 5.1Prenuclear
    • 5.2Nuclear
      • 5.2.1Non-terminal discourse junctures
      • 5.2.2Terminal discourse junctures
  • 6.Discussion and conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 06 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.28.08but
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