Wh-questions in Spanish: Meanings and Configuration Variability

This paper describes the distinct tonal configurations of wh-questions in Spanish and discusses their possible correlations with pragmatic and interactional meanings. The data consisted of both read and spontaneous speech from four Latin American varieties. Two of the dialects, Mexican and Colombian...

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Autor principal:	Juan Manuel Sosa
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2003
Materias:	prosody intonation meaning information structure wh-questions tonal configu- rations Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:97bc8ada166f464cb83c74f7f57c47742021-11-27T10:49:20ZWh-questions in Spanish: Meanings and Configuration Variability10.5565/rev/catjl.511695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/97bc8ada166f464cb83c74f7f57c47742003-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/51https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719This paper describes the distinct tonal configurations of wh-questions in Spanish and discusses their possible correlations with pragmatic and interactional meanings. The data consisted of both read and spontaneous speech from four Latin American varieties. Two of the dialects, Mexican and Colombian, as opposed to Venezuelan and Puerto Rican, showed a marked preference for rising contours in read speech, while in interviews virtually no such contours occurred for any of the speakers. A different kind of rising contour did regularly occur in the natural speech data, a globally rising contour without a dip before the final high rise, used for confirmation or reprise wh-questions. The conclusion of this study is that the unmarked configuration is indeed the gradually descending one, as described in the literature. This applies to all the dialects here examined, in spite of the variability of the contours, which is context-induced and related to information structure.Juan Manuel SosaUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleprosodyintonationmeaninginformation structurewh-questionstonal configu- rationsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 2 (2003)
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description	This paper describes the distinct tonal configurations of wh-questions in Spanish and discusses their possible correlations with pragmatic and interactional meanings. The data consisted of both read and spontaneous speech from four Latin American varieties. Two of the dialects, Mexican and Colombian, as opposed to Venezuelan and Puerto Rican, showed a marked preference for rising contours in read speech, while in interviews virtually no such contours occurred for any of the speakers. A different kind of rising contour did regularly occur in the natural speech data, a globally rising contour without a dip before the final high rise, used for confirmation or reprise wh-questions. The conclusion of this study is that the unmarked configuration is indeed the gradually descending one, as described in the literature. This applies to all the dialects here examined, in spite of the variability of the contours, which is context-induced and related to information structure.
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Wh-questions in Spanish: Meanings and Configuration Variability

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