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<br /></br><hr /><b>Tesis doctoral: </b><br />Henriksen, Nicholas.
2010. Question intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish. Indiana
University (Estados Unidos), Department of Linguistics and Department
of Spanish & Portuguese.<br />URL: <a
href="https://www.slashtmp.iu.edu/public/download.php?FILE=nhenriks/27081DocmY3"
target="_blank">https://www.slashtmp.iu.edu/public/download.php?FILE=nhenriks/27081DocmY3</a><br
/><b>Información de:</b> Nicholas Henriksen
<nhenriks@indiana.edu><br /><hr /><br /><b>Director/a de tesis:
</b>Erik Willis <br /><b>Codirector/a: </b>Daniel Dinnsen <br /><br
/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p>The primary goal of this dissertation is
to provide an account of the prosodic cues used to signal questions in
Manchego Peninsular Spanish, a dialect spoken in the south-central
region of mainland Spain. Specifically, this dissertation is an
experimental analysis of the intonation of declarative questions,
wh-questions, and declarative statements produced by 16 speakers of
this dialect of Spanish and aims to account for surface fundamental
frequency (F0) variability by adhering to principles in stylistic
variation and autosegmental prosodic structure. It also works within
the framework of empirical research on how the question vs. statement
contrast is conveyed cross-linguistically and responds to issues in
the syntax-prosody interface underlying question signaling generally.
<br /><br />The dissertation is motivated by three broad research
goals. The first goal is to investigate whether task-based phonetic
and/or phonological differences are observed for the set of
declarative question and wh-question F0 contours attested and whether
stylistic implications can be inferred based on the speech style in
which a particular contour is uttered. The second goal is to provide a
phonological analysis of the F0 gestures of which each question
contour is comprised. Working within the autosegmental-metrical
framework of intonational phonology, a tonal analysis is provided for
utterance-initial peaks in wh-questions and utterance-final rises and
falls in declarative questions and wh-questions, respectively. <br
/><br />The final goal is to determine how each of the contours
attested for declarative questions and wh-questions reflects the set
of phonetic-acoustic properties known to communicate questions
universally. To do this, we compare the acoustic correlates of each
question contour with those of declarative statements. The findings
provide strong evidence that question intonation is a feature of
speech communication with surface forms that are largely susceptible
to variability at the phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic,
dialectal, and even individual levels.</p><br /><b>Área
temática:</b> Fonética, Fonología, Sociolingüística<br /><br
/><b>Índice</b><br /><p>1 Introduction and background<br />1.1
Introduction<br />1.2 Research goals<br />1.3 Question intonation:
terminology and scope<br />1.4 Intonation in Spanish<br />1.5 The
auto-segmental approach to intonational phonology<br />1.6 Stylistic
variation and tasks in intonation research <br />1.7 Outline of the
dissertation<br /><br />2 Methods<br />2.1 Introduction<br />2.2
Speech and written materials<br />2.2.1 Contextualized sentence
reading task<br />2.2.2 Person identification task<br />2.2.2.1
Declarative question person identification task<br />2.2.2.2
Wh-question person identification task <br />2.2.3 Language
background questionnaire<br />2.3 Speakers<br />2.4 Recording
procedures<br />2.5 Analysis procedures<br /><br />3 The effect of
task and speech style on question intonation in Manchego Peninsular
Spanish<br />3.1 Introduction<br />3.2 Background<br />3.3 Analysis
1<br />3.3.1 Method<br />3.3.1.1 Speech materials<br />3.3.1.2
Speakers and recording procedures<br />3.3.1.3 Analysis procedures<br
/>3.3.2 Results: Declarative questions<br />3.3.2.1 Declarative
question contours<br />3.3.2.2 Task-based distribution<br />3.3.3
Results: Wh-questions <br />3.3.3.1 Wh-question contours<br />3.3.3.2
Task-based distribution<br />3.3.3.3 Combined task-based
distribution <br />3.4 Analysis 2<br />3.4.1 Method<br />3.4.1.1
Speech materials and speakers<br />3.4.1.2 Analysis procedures<br
/>3.4.2 Results<br />3.5 General discussion and conclusion<br
/>3.5.1 Stylistic variation<br />3.5.2 Task, dialectal, and social
variation<br />3.5.3 Phonetic variation<br /><br />4 Declarative
question intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish<br />4.1
Introduction<br />4.2 Analysis 1 – Early and late rises in Manchego
Peninsular Spanish declarative question intonation<br />4.2.1
Background<br />4.2.2 Method<br />4.2.2.1 Speech materials<br
/>4.2.2.2 Speakers and recording procedures<br />4.2.2.3 Analysis
procedures<br />4.2.3 Results<br />4.2.3.1 Temporal alignment and F0
in non-clash and final clash contexts<br />4.2.3.1.1 Statistical
analysis of alignment and scaling of IT and L1<br />4.2.3.1.2
Statistical analysis of alignment and F0 scaling of H1<br />4.2.3.1.3
Statistical analysis of alignment and F0 scaling of L2<br />4.2.3.1.4
Statistical analysis of scaling of FT <br />4.2.3.2 Early vs. late
rises in internal clash contexts<br />4.2.4 Summary and discussion<br
/>4.3 Analysis 2 – The acoustic correlates of statement vs.
question intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish <br />4.3.1
Background<br />4.3.1.1 Question signaling <br />4.3.1.2 Broad focus
declarative intonation in Spanish<br />4.3.2 Methods<br />4.3.2.1
Speech materials and speakers <br />4.3.2.2 Analysis procedures<br
/>4.3.3 Results<br />4.3.3.1 Early rise speakers: Declarative
statements vs. declarative questions<br />4.3.3.2 Late rise speakers:
Declarative statements vs. declarative questions<br />4.3.4 Summary
and discussion<br />4.4 General discussion and conclusion<br /><br
/>5 Wh-question intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish<br />5.1
Introduction <br />5.2 Analysis 1 – Initial peaks in Manchego
Peninsular Spanish wh-question intonation<br />5.2.1 Background<br
/>5.2.1.1 Wh-question intonation in Spanish<br />5.2.1.2
Utterance-initial peaks<br />5.2.2 Method<br />5.2.2.1 Speech
materials<br />5.2.2.2 Speakers and recording procedures<br />5.2.2.3
Analysis procedures<br />5.2.3 Results<br />5.2.3.1 Alignment of H1
<br />5.2.3.2 Scaling of IT and H1 <br />5.2.4 Summary and
discussion<br />5.3 Analysis 2 – Final falls in Manchego Peninsular
Spanish wh-question intonation<br />5.3.1 Background<br />5.3.2
Methods<br />5.3.3 Results<br />5.3.3.1 Temporal alignment and F0
scaling<br />5.3.3.1.1 Statistical analysis of alignment and scaling
of L1 for late fall contours<br />5.3.3.1.2 Statistical analysis of
alignment and scaling of H2 <br />5.3.3.1.3 Statistical analysis of
alignment and scaling of L2 <br />5.3.3.1.4 Statistical analysis of
FT scaling <br />5.3.3.2 Temporal alignment and F0 scaling in final
clash contexts<br />5.3.4 Summary and discussion<br />5.4 General
discussion and conclusion<br /><br />6 The acoustic correlates of
question signaling in Manchego Peninsular Spanish: declarative
questions, wh-questions, and declarative statements compared<br />6.1
Introduction <br />6.2 Background<br />6.3 Method<br />6.3.1 Speech
materials<br />6.3.2 Speakers and recording procedures<br />6.3.3
Analysis procedures<br />6.4 Results<br />6.5 Summary and
discussion<br /><br />7 Conclusion<br />7.1 Summary of findings<br
/>7.2 Implications for Spanish intonation<br />7.3 Implications for
intonational phonology<br />7.4 Conclusion<br /><br /><br
/>References<br />Appendix A. Discourse contexts and test
sentences<br />Appendix B. Declarative question person identification
task<br />Appendix C. Wh-question person identification task<br
/>Appendix D. Background questionnaire</p><br /><b>Fecha de lectura o
defensa:</b> 30 de abril de 2010<br /><br /><b>Número de págs.:</b>
270<br /><br /><b>Correo-e del autor/a:</b>
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