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Article published In: Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations
Edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín and Laura Morgenthaler
[Spanish in Context 16:3] 2019
► pp. 462–474

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Prosody: A feature of languages or a feature of speakers?

Asturian and Castilian in the center of Asturias

 | Universidad de Oviedo
Published online: 17 January 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00047.mun
Abstract
Social situations of language coexistence have resulted in linguistic manifestations of bilingualism and diglossia, including linguistic interference, lexical loans and code switching.
What role does prosody play in social bilingualism? In other words, when contact between different languages is not restricted to the individual but affects an entire speech community, does a dominant prosody exist? Does prosody vary among different linguistic varieties?
In order to find an answer to these questions, we hereby show the results of a research project on the prosodic features of Asturian and Castilian spoken in the centre of Asturias. This experimental study is based on the speech of four informants from Oviedo – two men and two women – two of which speak Castilian, while the other two speak Asturian.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Asturian-Castilian relationships
  • 3.Why prosody?
  • 4.Prosodic comparisons in Asturian-Castilian
    • 4.1Methodology
    • 4.2Comparison Asturian / Castilian F
      • 4.2.1Declarative utterances
      • 4.2.2Absolute interrogative utterances
  • 5.Conclusions
  • 6.Corpora
    • 6.1Castilian
    • 6.2Asturian
  • Note
  • References
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