Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Theories and Approaches to Spanish Linguistics
- Part II The Spanish Sound System
- 7 Vowels
- 8 Consonants
- 9 The Syllable
- 10 Prosody: Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation
- 11 Speech Perception
- Part III Spanish Morphosyntax and Meaning
- Part IV Spanish in Social, Geographic, and Historical Contexts
- Part V The Acquisition of Spanish
- Index
- References
9 - The Syllable
from Part II - The Spanish Sound System
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Theories and Approaches to Spanish Linguistics
- Part II The Spanish Sound System
- 7 Vowels
- 8 Consonants
- 9 The Syllable
- 10 Prosody: Stress, Rhythm, and Intonation
- 11 Speech Perception
- Part III Spanish Morphosyntax and Meaning
- Part IV Spanish in Social, Geographic, and Historical Contexts
- Part V The Acquisition of Spanish
- Index
- References
Summary
Despite the importance of prosody in the linguistic system of Spanish, its study has been relatively neglected in traditional grammars, which have typically concentrated on the description of syntactic and morphological patterns as well as the study of segmental phonetics and phonology. This chapter aims to provide an overview of the current knowledge of the prosodic features of Spanish in terms of stress, rhythm, and intonation. As far as stress is concerned, the chapter describes the system of lexical stress positions and gives an overview of the acoustic correlates of stress. With regard to rhythm, the chapter describes several Spanish varieties as ‘syllable-timed’ and explains how this is partially related to other linguistic properties of the language. From an intonational point of view, the chapter shows that Spanish uses melodic modulations for phrasing as well as for a wide set of pragmatic functions, including speech act marking, epistemic marking, and information structure marking. The chapter describes the main intonation contours in different dialects and, in addition, briefly presents the most recent version of Sp_ToBI, a consensus prosody transcription system based on the Autosegmental-Metrical model.
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