The Intonational System of Dominican Spanish: Findings and Analysis
Willis, Erik Wayne
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Description
Title
The Intonational System of Dominican Spanish: Findings and Analysis
Author(s)
Willis, Erik Wayne
Issue Date
2003
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hualde, Jose Ignacio
Department of Study
Spanish
Discipline
Spanish
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Linguistics
Language
eng
Abstract
A comparison of the tonal levels of the principal tones of the three utterance types revealed several interesting findings, including: the lack of initial tonal difference between DS declaratives and absolute interrogatives, the presence of nuclear upstepping to distinguish between declaratives and absolute interrogatives, and an elevated initial tonal level in pronominal interrogatives.
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