Intonation between phrasing and accent

Spanish and Quechua in Huari
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-130364-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 602 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1017 g

Reihe: LINGUISTICA LATINOAMERICANA

Are our concepts from prosodic typology, like word stress, pitch accent, head-/edge-prominence, really that tightly linked to individual languages? How are meanings often signaled via intonation in European languages, like information structure and sentence type, expressed in communicative acts between speakers who are bilingual in such a European language, Spanish, and one in which many of these meanings are expressed by morphology, Quechua?

Based on semi-spontaneous dialogical elicitation data in both Spanish and Quechua gathered via fieldwork in the bilingual community of Huari, Peru, this work provides some challenging answers to these questions. Besides being the first detailed description of the prosody of a Central Quechuan language, it provides an in-depth study of the intonational systems and prosodic structures of the two languages and shows that their variation spaces overlap to a large extent, in turns exhibiting or not exhibiting evidence of word stress, pitch accents, lexical pitch accents in loanwords, and head- or edge-prominence.

Zielgruppe

linguists (phonologists, prosodic typologists, American indigenou

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buchholz, Timo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Über Autor(innen)

Timo Buchholz, University of Cologne, Germany.