Phonetic and Phonological Evidence for Intermediate Phrasing in Spanish Intonation

Within an auto segmental-metrical (AM) framework of intonation, the melody of an utterance is understood as stemming from a series of tones associated to both stressed syllables and the boundaries of hierarchically-organized prosodic constituents that make up an utterance. Two possible constituents are the intermediate phrase and the intonation phrase. In languages such as English and Japanese (Pierrehumbert 1980, Beckman and Pierrehumbert 1986, Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1988), Catalan (Prieto 1997), and Portuguese (Frota 1998), tones marking phrases smaller than the intonation phrase can be used to create meaning contrasts. It has been claimed that this does not occur in Spanish, however, since only one level of phonological phrasing exists in the language---the intonation phrase itself (Sosa 1991, 1999).

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Nibert, Holly Joy

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hualde, Jose Ignacio

• Language, Linguistics
• Language, Modern

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9971148

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/77481