A first approach to the intonation of Chistabino, compared to Castilian
Keywords:
Aragonese, Aragonese dialectology, Aragon, Chistabino, intonationAbstract
This paper reports on a preliminary study of the speech of the intonation of a variety of Aragonese: Chistabino, spoken in the valley of Gistau, especially in Gistaín, in the Province of Huesca, Spain.
This first approach to the intonation of Chistabino suggests that unmarked statements, as in Spanish, are said on a terminal fall, unmarked pronominal questions are frequently pronounced on a rise (prototypically a fall in Spanish), and unmarked yes-no questions are often said with a rise-fall pattern (usually a rise in Spanish, if unmarked). So it appears that Chistabino uses rising contours and complex tunes more often than Spanish. Non-final nuclei, as in Spanish, tend to be performed on or form part of a rise. Where alternative patterns are used, there is some pragmatic nuance (insistence, politeness, uncertainty, etc.).
Use of the fall-rise in yes-no questions has also been found in Asturias, Galicia and Caribbean Spanish, while in Castilian it is marked.
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