Tonal Crowding Effects In Buenos Aires Spanish

An Experimental Study

Bibliographic Data

ID19544232
AuthorsPhilip A Thornberry (University of Minnesota System, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume7
Issue2
Pages369-394
Publication date2014-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1939-0238 • E-ISSN: 2199-3386
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/shll-2014-1171
OpenAlexW2318867625
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This study provides insight into the consequences of tonal crowding in Buenos Aires Spanish, enriching our current knowledge of the phonetic phenomena in this variety of Spanish. The present work is an experimental study that elicits 270 broad focus declarative statements in varying degrees of tonal crowding from five native speakers of this dialect. To achieve this, the number of unstressed syllables between stressed syllables in content words was manipulated to observe how the scaling and alignment of L and H tones, rise times, and syllable durations in prenuclear pitch accents all respond in different phonetic conditions. The results indicate that temporal and scaling reorganization is a prerequisite for the realization of two pitch accents in tonal crowding situations in Buenos Aires Spanish, though in ways differing from other dialects of Spanish. The first pitch accent remains largely unaffected, while the second pitch accent appears to be deaccented entirely

Cognitive psychology · Crowding · Linguistics · Physics · Pitch accent · Prosody · Syllable · Computer Science · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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