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In:The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda
Edited by Matilde Vida-Castro and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz
[Studies in Language Variation 31] 2024
► pp. 119–139

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Chapter 6
Nuclear pitch accents in the assertive speech prosody of Acapulco, Mexico

Between lowland and highland Spanish

 | El Colegio de México, Mexico
Published online: 5 February 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.31.06mar
Abstract
This chapter studies certain aspects of assertive intonation in Acapulco, Mexico, using sociolinguistic interviews from the Corpus oral del español de México. It presents acoustic and phonetic analysis that focuses on the nuclear syllable and considers the type of boundary tone, tonal movement, syllable duration and the position of the tonal peak, while examining the effects of information structure, age, gender and educational level. The results show that information structure and age are significant in the distribution of nuclear pitch accents. The conclusions suggest a retraction pattern of the most prominent tonal configurations and the grouping of the prosody of Acapulco with central Mexican Spanish, although some degree of prosodic residue from the coast can also be observed.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Between central Mexico and the coast
  • 3.Methodology: The use of interviews in socioprosody
  • 4.Results
  • 5.A multivariate analysis
  • 6.In search of vernacular prosody
  • 7.Towards a discussion
  • 8.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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