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Highlights of the first acoustical description of the intonation of the Spanish in Bucaramanga, Colombia

Authors: Yeimy J. Roberto;

Highlights of the first acoustical description of the intonation of the Spanish in Bucaramanga, Colombia

Abstract

This study presents the first acoustical description of the intonation of the Spanish in Bucaramanga, a northeast city in Colombia. A total of 376 utterances from 4 speakers was analyzed, including statements and interrogatives, elicited in spontaneous, semi-spontaneous and read contexts. Intonational analysis confirms that Bucaramangan Spanish is closest to Cali's variety of Colombian Spanish; however, a wide variety was found in the realization of nuclear accents, boundary tones, and prosodic phrasing. Statements are usually realized with a low nuclear accent when neutral, but a high nuclear accent appears when they are not neutral, in some cases showing upstep features (emphatic statements) and downstep features (in the tonal boundaries of requests). Yes-No questions, as well as WH echo questions, are realized with a rising boundary tone. In all the other instances the boundary tone is falling. This study contributes to the description of the intonation of Latin-American Spanish varieties and supports Hualde and Prieto's (2016) proposal that intonation should be discussed at two levels: the phonological level, and a broad phonetic level.

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