A Comparison of the Intonation Patterns of English and Spanish

Bowen, J. Donald

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“…Examples of studies that were carried out include Bolinger (1951), Bowen (1956), Kvavik (1974), Kvavik & Olsen (1974), and Stockwell & Bowen (1965). The last few decades, conversely, have seen an explosion in intonation studies, in part due to new theoretical approaches to intonation (e.g.…”

Section: Spanish Declarative Intonationmentioning

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Miami Cuban Spanish Declarative Intonation

Alvord

2010

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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The current study is a phonetic description and phonological analysis, using the Autosegmental Metrical (AM) theory of intonational phonology, of broad focus (neutral) declarative utterances in the Spanish of three generations of Miami Cubans. No differences were found across these three generations indicating the maintenance of a robust intonational pattern for declarative utterances. The prenuclear (non-final) pitch accent is analyzed to be L*+H and the nuclear pitch accent is L+H*. This phonological analysis is similar to what has been found for many other varieties of Spanish. A high rate of deaccenting, however, was observed in conjunction with the final lexically stressed syllable. The prevalence of deaccented final stressed syllables is unique to what has been found for other Spanish varieties.

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Miami Cuban Spanish Declarative Intonation

Alvord

2010

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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“…También Bowen (1956Bowen ( -1957 se ocupa de la realización de las distintas secuencias vocálicas. Entre sus informaciones, que interesan más desde el ámbito de la fonética, destaca el apoyo a la idea de juntura, que considera "bien establecida" entre el inventario de fonemas del español (Bowen 1956(Bowen -1957. En el artículo, señala los distintos patrones de realización de las vocales en contacto; por ejemplo, cuando aparecen dos vocales iguales seguidas, tiende a pronunciarse una única.…”

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“…Ocurre lo mismo con los fonemas /u/ y /o/, que en determinadas ocasiones cambian a /w/. Cuando la secuencia es /ae/, /ao/, /ei/, /oi/, /ou/, puede llegar a desaparecer el primer fonema (Bowen 1956(Bowen -1957. En cualquier caso, las realizaciones varían en función de la acentuación de las vocales.…”

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La lengua española en la fonología estructuralista americana

Quesada

2018

Estud. filol.

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Este artículo aborda el estudio historiográfico de las líneas fundamentales del estructuralismo americano o distribucionalismo en el ámbito de la fonología del español. Así, se esbozan los fundamentos de esta tendencia lingüística y se analizan los principales trabajos que aplican sus principios a la caracterización fonológica del español. Estos estudios, a veces poco conocidos, suponen tempranas reflexiones fonológicas y muestran la especificidad de la interpretación de esta escuela en comparación con los trabajos europeos. Se pretende contribuir de este modo al conocimiento de la historia de los estudios fonológicos del español. Palabras claves: fonología, lengua española, distribucionalismo, estructuralismo americano, historiografía lingüística This paper deals with the historiographical study of the main lines of American structuralism or distributionalism in the field of Spanish phonology. Thus, the grounds of this linguistic trend are outlined, and the main works applying its principles to the phonological characterization of Spanish are analyzed. These studies, little known sometimes, represent early phonological reflections and show the specific interpretation of this school compared to European works. Consequently, this paper aims to contribute to the knowledge of the history of phonological studies of Spanish.

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“…Several studies of the phonological and semantic contrasts between English and Spanish intonation (especially Stockwell and Bowen, 1965: 19-34;also Bull, 1965: 83-88;and Bowen, 1956) can suggest what to look for in Chicano English. The facts of Chicano English intonation probably reflect aspects of the Spanish/English contrast, but in a complicated form not predictable from studies of Spanish/English contrast alone.…”

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The Study of California Chicano English

Metcalf¹

1974

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Many members of the Chicano (or Mexican American) ethnic community speak what I will term 'Chicano English', a variety of English that is obviously influenced by Spanish and that has low prestige in most circles, but that nevertheless is independent of Spanish and is the first, and often only, language of many hundreds of thousands of residents of California. 1 In a talk several years ago (Metcalf, 1972a) I deplored the lack of research on Chicano English. I can now report, after a new search for research on the subject, some good news and some bad news.First, the good news. In the past several years real progress has been made in defining and deciding on solutions to the 'language problems' of children and adults who speak Chicano English. Researchers seem more ready than before to recognize that many Chicano English speakers are fluent in English only and should not be barraged with TESOL programs designed for students who have no command of English at all. The notion of respect for the child's language has also begun to take hold, no matter whether that language is standard English, standard Spanish, Chicano English, Chicano Spanish, or even, horror of horrors, a pattern of code-switching between Chicano English and Chicano Spanish.Then, too, there has been mounting evidence that the 'language problem' faced by those who speak Chicano English is not really a language problem, but a social one.

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A Comparison of the Intonation Patterns of English and Spanish

Cited by 14 publications

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Miami Cuban Spanish Declarative Intonation

Miami Cuban Spanish Declarative Intonation

La lengua española en la fonología estructuralista americana

The Study of California Chicano English

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