Abstract

VELASQUEZ-UPEGUI, Eva Patricia. INTONATION OF COMMANDS AND REQUESTS IN FOUR COLOMBIAN DIALECTS. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2016, n.69, pp.31-49. ISSN 0120-5587.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n69a01.

In this article, the prosodic description of commands and requests in four Colombian dialects is presented in order to delimit their attributes as part of the directive speech acts and to recognise the prosodic variations in each dialectal variety. According to the hypothesis, the pragmatic functions prevail over the dialectal variations so that the speaker will tend to reduce the dialectal marks in order to give priority to the melodic patterns that allow expressing his communicative intentions. According to considerations of the Autosegmental‐Metrical (AM) model and the Sp_ToBI transcription system, 174 sentences among commands and requests were analysed and compared to 96 assertive sentences. It was observed that commands present special features as amplitude in the tonal camp and increase in the duration of the nuclear syllable. In contrast, requests show a decrease in the tonal camp and increase in the duration of the nuclear syllable. In relation to the melodic curve it is remarkable that these sentences produced in a large amount tend to reduce notably the dialectical variations and manifest a L+H* L% pattern.

Keywords : speech acts; prosody; intonation; dialect; commands; requests; assertions..

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