Galician and Spanish in Galicia

Prosodies in contact

Bibliographic Data

ID21179790
AuthorsElisa Fernández Reis (0000-0002-4109-0087, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, corresponding author), Elisa Fernández Rei (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Instituto da Lingua Galega)
Year2019
Volume16
Issue3
Pages438-461
Publication date2019-12-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSpanish in Context (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1571-0718 • E-ISSN: 1571-0726
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sic.00046.fer
OpenAlexW2998784636
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

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

Linguistics · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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