Abstract

MUNOZ-BUILES, Diana Marcela. Prosodic Focus in Spanish Spoken in Medellín and Apartadó: Social Factors for Its Understanding. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2023, n.83, pp.139-164.  Epub June 14, 2023. ISSN 0120-5587.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n83a06.

This article describes the prosodic characteristics of utterances with a broad focus, narrow informative focus and narrow corrective contrastive focus in Apartadó and Medellín, Colombia. A corpus of 195 utterances elicited from semi-spontaneous speech and sentence reading is analyzed. The prosodic analysis is based on the metric-autosegmental model, with its Sp_ToBI labeling system and the behavior of declination, speed, tonal range, intensity and duration. The results suggest a relevant influence of the acoustic parameters and some social variables of the collaborators in the performance of the different types of focus.

Keywords : prosody; broad focus; narrow focus; intonation; Colombian Spanish.

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