Prosodic differences in reading style: isolated vs. contextualized sentences

Almiñana, Juan María Garrido; Llisterri, Joaquim; Mota, Carme de la; Rı́os, Antonio

doi:10.21437/eurospeech.1993-135

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“…As regards peak alignment, note that the L+H* and L+¡H* accents show tonal peak alignment in the middle of the nuclear syllable in Figure 8. 11 For L+H*; this is what would be expected in other varieties of Spanish in utterance-final position, compared to prefinal positions (Face, 1999; Garrido et al, 1993; Llisterri et al, 1995; de la Mota Gorriz, 1995, 1997). For L+¡H*, peak alignment is a more complex issue.…”

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“…Although this difference between the two nuclear pitch accents was checked in Praat, it was also noticeable auditorily in most cases. As already noted, there were some instances of L+H* and L+¡H* with peak displacement (i.e., L+>H* and L+>¡H*, respectively), which were grouped together with those without peak displacement for the above-mentioned reasons (peak displacement in several varieties of Spanish is considered in, e.g., Face, 1999;Garrido et al, 1993;Llisterri et al, 1995;de la Mota Gorriz, 1995, 1997Navarro Tomás, 1944;Prieto et al, 1995). Figure 8 presents examples of each of the three nuclear pitch accent types.…”

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Circumflex Nuclear Configurations in Yucatecan Spanish as a Supraregional Feature: The Roles of Bilingualism and Gender

Uth

García

2020

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In this paper, we study the nuclear configurations of declarative broad focus utterances in Yucatecan Spanish, a Mexican variety spoken in southeast Mexico in contact with Yucatec Maya, from a sociolinguistic perspective. We draw on a corpus of 276 utterances elicited from 16 speakers, eight Maya–Spanish bilinguals (four female/four male) and eight Spanish monolinguals (four female/four male). We particularly concentrate on the roles of bilingualism, gender, and their relationship to local (Hispanic) identity. Although the intonation of Yucatecan Spanish is known to be very different from Central Mexican Spanish, we find in our data a considerable number of contours that Martín Butragueño (2017) refers to as typical “Central Mexican circumflex intonation” (p. 153). What is more, this feature is distributed unevenly among speaker groups in our data. First of all, it is much more frequent in the bilingual than in the monolingual group. We suggest that this is due to the monolinguals’ higher degree of identification with the local Spanish language and culture (whereas the bilingual speakers are more oriented toward the Mayan language and culture and less toward the local Spanish ones; see Uth, 2018b). Secondly, as regards gender, there are many sociolinguistic works that suggest that women tend to be less oriented toward local vernaculars than men. Building on that, we argue that a greater decrease of the supraregional circumflex configuration within the monolingual male group than within the monolingual female is to be expected. However, this hypothesis is not confirmed by our data.

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Circumflex Nuclear Configurations in Yucatecan Spanish as a Supraregional Feature: The Roles of Bilingualism and Gender

Uth

García

2020

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“…Spanish lexical stress is often taught in the classroom in isolated words; that is, there is no emphasis on teaching stress perception in sentences, where the acoustic correlates of stress may vary depending on the type and position of stress, as has been observed in previous studies (Garrido et al, 1993;Llisterri et al, 1993Llisterri et al, ,1995Prieto et al, 1995;Xu, 1999;Ortega-Llebaria, 2006;Ortega-Llebaria & Prieto, 2007, 2010, and Ortega-Llebaria et al, 2013) and this study. Moreover, the results suggest that difficulties in the acquisition of Spanish lexical stress at least partly lie in perception, at least with respect to lexical stress in interrogative and exclamative sentences.…”

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“…On one hand, Japanese accent is defined by marking a decrease in tone after the more prominent mora (Tsujimura, 1996); whereas, in Spanish, depending on the context (e.g., isolated word; declarative, exclamatory, or interrogative sentences), the presence of acoustic correlates (i.e., F0, duration, and intensity) could be more subtle for indicating stress (Hualde, 2014). The realization of F0 as a cue to stress in Spanish exhibits variation in the position of excursions toward peaks when a word is isolated versus when found in interrogative and exclamatory contexts of full sentences; that is, when target words (i.e., particularly proparoxytones and paroxytones) are embedded in interrogative and exclamatory sentences and located in non-final position, F0 peaks tend displace to a post-tonic syllable rather than aligning with the stressed syllable (Garrido et al, 1993(Garrido et al, , 1995Hualde & Kim, 2005;Llisterri, et al, 2002;Llisterri, et al, 2003;Llisterri et al, 2003;Prieto, Van Santen & Hirschberg, 1995;Xu, 1999). Indeed, this phenomenon is very frequent in Spanish and is referred to as the F0 shift, F0 peak displacement, or F0 peak delay.…”

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“…Indeed, this phenomenon is very frequent in Spanish and is referred to as the F0 shift, F0 peak displacement, or F0 peak delay. According to Garrido et al (1993), F0 peak displacement occurs more than 70% of the time in the stressed words of Spanish declarative sentences and aligns with the stressed syllable approximately 25% of the time. Based on previous information, F0 peaks behave differently (i.e., peak displacement vs. alignment) depending on context.…”

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The effects of context of learning on the perception of Spanish stress by Japanese speakers

Sierra,

Loyola,

Kimura

et al. 2023

J. of Speech Sci.

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This study explores the effect of context of learning on the perception of Spanish lexical stress. Spanish is considered a mixed system (with predictable and unpredictable stress) and a stress-accent language. Tokyo Japanese is a good example of a language without stress, but with pitch-accent. Two groups of Japanese speakers (20 in Bogotá and 25 in Japan) and a control group of 20 Spanish speakers completed a stress identification task, consisting of nine sets of 3 syllable accentual minimal triplets with each having an oxytone (e.g., nabidó), a paroxytone (e.g., nabido), and a proparoxytone (e.g., nábido). The results demonstrated that there was a significant effect of context of learning, with learners in Japan (88%) having a significantly (p=0.000) higher error rate than the learners in Colombia (60%). This study sheds highlights the effect of context of learning on L2 speech learning by demonstrating that immersion can enhance L2 stress perception.

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Style, prosodic variation, and the social meaning of intonation

Henriksen¹

2013

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This paper reports on an acoustic analysis of the intonational patterns of declarative questions and wh-questions produced by a group of young adults residing in a rural town of south-central Spain. Question intonation has been reported as highly variable across and within Spanish dialects; recent sociophonetic research on multiple languages suggests that intonational variation may be accounted for by speaking condition (i.e. speech style) in addition to other linguistic and social factors. This study is an initial attempt to examine the potential interactions between speaking condition (read speech vs. task-based dialogue) and social characteristics (speaker sex) on intonational variation. First, it is shown that 12 of the 16 speakers undergo at least one style-shift between speaking conditions; these data are captured in variationist terms, providing empirical assessments about formal and vernacular variants for the two sentence types in question. Second, it is shown that speaker sex differences play a role in style-shifting, and this leads to the hypothesis that variation in declarative questions may have developed as a marker of local identity for Manchego men. All in all, this study offers empirical support that the findings on sociophonetic variation warrant consideration in current models of speech production.

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Prosodic differences in reading style: isolated vs. contextualized sentences

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Circumflex Nuclear Configurations in Yucatecan Spanish as a Supraregional Feature: The Roles of Bilingualism and Gender

Circumflex Nuclear Configurations in Yucatecan Spanish as a Supraregional Feature: The Roles of Bilingualism and Gender

The effects of context of learning on the perception of Spanish stress by Japanese speakers

Style, prosodic variation, and the social meaning of intonation

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