Preplanificación psicolingüística y entonación en el español mediterráneo

Abstract

The global model, i.e., the mental preplanning of intonation, was tested through two experiments of production in Mediterranean Peninsular Spanish. In one, the correlation between the height of the first peak, the PI effect, and the increasing length of the sentences was examined. Results did not support this effect of preplanning. In the second, an analysis of syntactic boundaries in clauses (and-clause vs. but-; and-clause vs. and-phrase; and-clause vs. that-) was performed to determine preplanned tonal weight differences. Speakers ruled out the effect. General findings suggested that local patterns rather than global patterns could explain better the intonational behavior.