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Intonation in Language Contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Jonas Grünke
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 286] 2024
► pp. v–viii

Table of contents

Chapter 1.Introduction 1
Chapter 2.Spanish-Catalan language contact and Catalonian Spanish 7
2.1Spanish-Catalan language contact: Historical background and present sociolinguistic situation 7
2.2Research into Catalan-contact Spanish 17
2.3Linguistic features of Catalan-contact Spanish 24
2.3.1Lexical and grammatical features of CCS 24
2.3.2Segmental features of CCS phonetics and phonology 32
2.3.3Suprasegmental features of CCS phonetics and phonology 37
Chapter 3.Theoretical background and description of Castilian Spanish and Central Catalan intonation 42
3.1Intonation 42
3.1.1Models of intonation and annotation systems 42
3.1.1.1Autosegmental-Metrical model 45
3.1.1.2ToBI 56
3.1.2Intonation of Castilian Spanish and Central Catalan in comparison 59
3.1.2.1Inventory of pitch accents and boundary tones 63
3.1.2.2Intonational tunes in Castilian Spanish and Central Catalan 67
3.2Language contact 80
3.2.1Key terms and approaches 80
3.2.2Contact-induced phonological change 99
3.2.3Transfer and convergence at the intonational level: Case studies 102
3.3Bilingualism and language dominance 110
Chapter 4.Methodology, speakers, and data 126
4.1Assessing language dominance 126
4.2Speakers 130
4.2.1Language history 136
4.2.2Language use 139
4.2.3Language proficiency 142
4.2.4Language attitudes 143
4.3Materials and procedure 144
4.3.1Semi-spontaneous data 145
4.3.2Read data 147
Chapter 5.Results 159
5.1Intonational analysis 159
5.1.1Neutral statements 159
5.1.1.1Neutral declarative statements 160
5.1.1.2Enumerations 169
5.1.1.3Peripheral elements 171
5.1.2Biased statements 180
5.1.2.1Contrastive-focus statements 180
5.1.2.2Exclamative statements 183
5.1.2.3Contradiction statements 185
5.1.2.4Dubitative statements 188
5.1.3Neutral polar questions 189
5.1.3.1Information-seeking yes–no questions 189
5.1.3.1.1Overview of the analysed neutral yes–no questions 192
5.1.3.1.2Intonation of information-seeking yes–no questions without que 195
5.1.3.1.3Information-seeking yes–no questions headed by que 219
5.1.3.1.4Peripheral elements in yes–no question of more than one tonal unit 225
5.1.3.1.5Effects of speaker origin and language dominance 227
5.1.3.1.6Summary: Information-seeking yes–no questions 230
5.1.3.2Disjunctive questions 231
5.1.4Biased polar questions 235
5.1.4.1Exclamative yes–no questions (with counterexpectational meaning) 235
5.1.4.2Confirmation-seeking yes–no questions 240
5.1.5Neutral wh-questions 243
5.1.6Biased wh-questions 254
5.1.6.1Exclamative wh-questions 254
5.1.6.2Imperative wh-questions 258
5.1.7Echo questions 262
5.1.7.1Echo yes–no questions 262
5.1.7.2Echo wh-questions 264
5.1.7.3Exclamative echo yes–no questions (with counterexpectational meaning) 267
5.1.8Imperatives 270
5.1.8.1Commands 270
5.1.8.2Requests 272
5.1.9Vocatives 275
5.1.10Supplementary analysis of Girona Spanish read speech 278
5.1.10.1Girona Spanish que-questions 278
5.1.10.2Girona Spanish dislocations 285
5.2Tonal inventory of Girona Spanish and Girona Catalan 288
5.2.1Phonological status of the prenuclear pitch accents in Girona Spanish and Girona Catalan 288
5.2.2Phonological status of the nuclear configurations of inner ips in Girona Spanish and Girona Catalan 292
5.2.3Phonological status of the nuclear configurations of IPs in Girona Spanish and Girona Catalan 294
5.2.4Inventory of pitch accents and boundary tones in Girona Spanish and Girona Catalan 305
Chapter 6.Discussion 309
6.1Similarities and differences between the prosodic systems of Girona Spanish and Girona Catalan 310
6.2Variation in Girona Spanish and Girona Catalan 312
6.3Prosodic distance between Girona Spanish and Castilian Spanish and between Girona Catalan and other Central Catalan varieties 317
6.4How can the similarities and differences between the GS and GC intonational systems be explained in terms of language contact? 324
6.4.1Neutral statements 324
6.4.2Biased statements 325
6.4.3Polar questions 329
6.4.4Wh-questions 341
6.4.5Echo questions 344
6.4.6Imperatives 346
6.4.7Vocatives 347
6.4.8Summary: The prosodic systems of current GS and current GC 348
6.5The status of Girona Spanish (and Catalonian Spanish) as a distinctive variety within the Spanish diasystem 351
6.6How does contact-induced intonational change work? 353
6.7Which intonational features are likely to be transferred? 357
Chapter 7.Conclusion 360
Bibliography 364
Appendix 407
1.Participants’ dominance scores and Complementarity Index 408
2.Language Background Questionnaire (Catalan version) 410
3.Language Background Questionnaire (Spanish version) 415
4.Intonation surveys (Spanish and Catalan) 420
5.Dialogue (with translation) 426
Index 427