Emphatic intonation in the Spanish spoken by Russian speaking people

Authors

  • Zoya Garmátina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/phonica.2020.16.83-103

Keywords:

Intonation, Interlanguage, Spanish spoken by Russian people, Emphasis

Abstract

In this paper, the first results of the analysis of emphatic intonation of Spanish spoken by Russian people are provided. To do the research, 15 hours of spontaneous conversations with ten native Russian speakers were recorded. They have an intermediate or advanced level of Spanish. From all recordings, we selected 70 emphatic statements with a strong emotional charge. For the analysis, we were based on the Melodic Analysis of Speech (MAS) method and the contours obtained from this interlanguage were compared with the emphatic patterns of peninsular Spanish. The results offer us the characterization of the emphatic intonation of Russian people spoken Spanish.

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Published

2021-02-05

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Vol. 16 (2020): Prosody and affectivity expression

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