34.2159, Books: The intonation of expectations: Fliessbach

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Date: 03-Jul-2023
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: The intonation of expectations: Fliessbach


Title: The intonation of expectations
Subtitle: On marked declaratives, exclamatives, and discourse
particles in Castilian Spanish
Series Title: Open Romance Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/387

Author: Jan Fliessbach
Electronic: ISBN: 9783961104130 Pages: 300 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

This book provides a new perspective on prosodically marked
declaratives, wh-exclamatives, and discourse particles in the Madrid
variety of Spanish. It argues that some marked forms differ from
unmarked forms in that they encode modal evaluations of the at-issue
meaning. Two epistemic evaluations that can be shown to be encoded by
intonation in Spanish are obviousness and mirativity, which present
the at-issue meaning as expected and unexpected, respectively. An
empirical investigation via a production experiment finds that they
are associated with distinct intonational features under constant
focus scope, with stances of (dis)agreement showing an impact on
obvious declaratives. Wh-exclamatives are found not to differ
significantly in intonational marking from neutral declaratives,
showing that they need not be miratives. Moreover, we find that
intonational marking on different discourse particles in natural
dialogue correlates with their meaning contribution without being
fully determined by it. In part, these findings quantitatively confirm
previous qualitative findings on the meaning of intonational
configurations in Madrid Spanish. But they also add new insights on
the role intonation plays in the negotiation of commitments and
expectations between interlocutors.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Areal Regions: Western Europe

Written In: English (eng)

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