Resumen

BERMUDEZ CASTILLO, Dominic Lilian. Prosodic Marks of the Intensification with Degree Adverbs in Mexico City’s Spanish. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2023, n.83, pp.65-89.  Epub 09-Jun-2023. ISSN 0120-5587.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n83a03.

On the present investigation are analyzed the prosodic marks of intensification on constructions with the degree adverb muy on Mexico City speakers. A test was applied to obtain data with different degress of control by means of a semi-directed interview and a reading. The principal objective of this paper is to identify the prosodic resources used to intensify specific parts of the speech, in this case a degree adverb, aiming to describe and analyze a possible relationship between the semantic-syntactic and prosodic parts of language.

Palabras clave : prosody; intonation; semantics; gradation; adverbs.

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