Intonation across two border areas in the North Andean region: Mérida
(Venezuela) and Medellin (Colombia)
The Andes mountain system serves as a natural border throughout
several South American countries. This research takes place in the region known
as the Northern Andes, in two of the most important cities of the Venezuelan and
Colombian Andes: Mérida, State of Mérida, and Medellin, Department of
Antioquia.
The main purpose of this study is to establish intonation
similarities and differences between these two Andean cities. As a preliminary
study, part of the AMPER Project, it examines the F0 as a melodic support. The
study has been conducted according to the parameters established in the
above-mentioned project.
The intention of this research is twofold: First, to accomplish
one of the main AMPER goals of performing comparative studies among diverse
Romance languages and its varieties; and secondly, to establish possible
relationships and differences among language varieties that are in contact,
despite being separated by borderlines.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Main purpose
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1Informants and corpus
- 3.2Acoustic analysis
- 3.3Prosodic labelling with Sp_ToBI
- 4.Results
- 4.1Initial and mid tone
- 4.2Pitch range of pitch peaks
- 4.3Stepping in the peaks
- 4.4Final and mid tone
- 4.5I-F slope
- 4.6Prosodic labelling
- 5.Conclusions and discussion
- 6.Limitations and implications
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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