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Tonal and duration structures in the intonation of Spanish language by bilingual Americans of Mexican ancestry

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  • Josefa Dorta Luis Universidad de La Laguna (España)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.45.04

Keywords:

intonation, F0, duration, Spanish of San Antonio de Texas

Abstract

We study declarative and interrogative intonation in a speech corpus produced by bilingual

women and men from San Antonio de Texas with Mexican ancestry. The work focuses on

F0 and duration parameters in order to define the tonal invariants and variants and the

duration structures, as well as the relationship between both parameters. Regarding F0,

results reveal the presence of fundamental characteristics pertaining to Mexican intonation,

particularly in interrogatives, where their end is ascendant as it has been described for

Mexican and Spanish. Regarding duration, we have been able to generate different duration

structures in the syntagmas we have compared and the different accents over the long

base (L) and the brief base (B).

Author Biography

Josefa Dorta Luis, Universidad de La Laguna (España)

Departamento de Filología Española, Área de Lingüística General, Facultad de Humanidades

(Sección de Filología) / Responsable científica del Laboratorio de Fonética. S.E.G.A.I.

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2022-10-28

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Dorta Luis, J. . (2022). Tonal and duration structures in the intonation of Spanish language by bilingual Americans of Mexican ancestry. Onomázein, (45), 232–258. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.45.04

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No. 45: 2019

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