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Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín and Laura Morgenthaler
[Spanish in Context 16:3] 2019
► pp. 438–461

Galician and Spanish in Galicia

Prosodies in contact

| Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Instituto da Lingua Galega

The current study analyses the intonation of three types of utterances (broad focus statements, information-seeking yes-no questions and information-seeking wh-questions) in Galician and Spanish, in order to research the effects on the intonation of the prolonged contact between these two languages in Galicia. The main aims are to detect possible hybridisation processes in the intonation of these varieties and determine whether the intonation behaviour is different depending on the language used or on the language profile of the speakers. To that end, this study presents an empirical study which analyses these three types of utterances in Spanish and Galician, produced by 22 informants with different linguistic profiles. The results indicate little variability in the intonation based on the initial and habitual languages of the speakers or the language in which they produce the corpus. However, the existence of some hybrid patterns in wh-questions has been detected. The theoretical implications of these results will be discussed within the framework of hybridisation.

Keywords: intonation, language contact, Galician Spanish
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Language contact and sociolinguistic speaker profiles
    • 2.1Historical and sociolinguistic context
    • 2.2The sociolinguistic profiles of Galician speakers and speakers of GS
  • 3.Galician and GS intonation
    • 3.1Language contact and intonation
    • 3.2Hybridisation framework
  • 4.The experiment
    • 4.1Hypothesis
    • 4.2Method
      • 4.2.1Informants
      • 4.2.2The corpus
    • 4.3Results
      • 4.3.1Broad focus statements
      • 4.3.2Information-seeking yes-no questions
      • 4.3.3Information-seeking wh- questions
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 17 January 2020
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