Abstract

MENDOZA VAZQUEZ, Erika. Nuclear Pitch Accents of Statements in the Spanish of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Approach in Real Time. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2023, n.83, pp.16-42.  Epub June 09, 2023. ISSN 0120-5587.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n83a01.

This paper describes the nuclear pitch accents of the statements in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, from the perspective of real time, in the decades 1970 and 2010. The prosodic description is based on the autosegmental metrical model, with the support of sociolinguistic factors. The findings show that L+¡H* nuclear pitch accent is the most documented in both periods. In the current data there is a decrease in L+¡H* and a moderate increase in the use of L+H*, with rise less than 3 semitones. Thus, indications of retraction of the bitonal nuclear accents are observed in broad focus statements.

Keywords : prosody; nuclear pitch accent; sociolinguistics; linguistic change; Mexican Spanish.

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