Edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín and Laura Morgenthaler
[Spanish in Context 16:3] 2019
► pp. 353–389
Traces of language contact in intonation
The case of Yucatecan Spanish
This article deals with the intonational realization of contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish. Data from three recent elicitation studies with a total of ten bilingual speakers of Yucatecan Spanish (YS) and Yucatec Maya (YM) and five monolingual speakers of YS suggest that contrastive focus in the Yucatecan Spanish variant spoken by the Spanish-dominant and monolingual speakers is mostly signaled by means of a high pitch early in the intonation phrase (IP) followed by a fall to the final stressed syllable of a contrasted word. In this respect, the established YS variety crucially differs from standard Mexican Spanish (MS), where the stressed syllable of a contrastive constituent is generally associated with an L+H* pitch accent (cf. de-la-Mota, Martín Butragueño & Prieto. 2010). However, the systematicity described above only shows up in the data produced by the Spanish-dominant and monolingual YS speakers, whereas the balanced bilingual data is characterized by much higher idiosyncratic variation. This fact suggests that the development of intonational systems is also a matter of consolidation or strengthening of features.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Database and methodology
- 2.1Database 1: ELIC01
- i.Participants
- ii.Materials and procedure
- iii.Results
- 2.2Database 2: TAP02
- i.Participants
- ii.Materials and procedure
- 2.3Database 3: ELIC02
- i.Participants
- ii.Materials and procedure
- iii.Results
- 2.1Database 1: ELIC01
- 3.Intonational realization of contrastive focus in YS: the Spanish-dominant
data
- 3.1Intonational characteristics of YS broad focus utterances
- 3.2Intonational realization of contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish
- 3.3Marginal patterns
- 4.Language contact
- 4.1The left high tone, intonational focus marking, and language contact
- 4.2Developmental phases
- 5.Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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References
https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00043.uth
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