
doi: 10.1121/1.5147622
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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