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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Intonational System of Dominican Spanish: Findings and Analysis

Abstract

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A comparison of the tonal levels of the principal tones of the three utterance types revealed several interesting findings, including: the lack of initial tonal difference between DS declaratives and absolute interrogatives, the presence of nuclear upstepping to distinguish between declaratives and absolute interrogatives, and an elevated initial tonal level in pronominal interrogatives.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Spanish
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Willis, Erik Wayne
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Hualde, Jose Ignacio

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3086217
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86123

Chain of custody

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Base URL
www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Willis, Erik Wayne. The Intonational System of Dominican Spanish: Findings and Analysis. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86123