The Interrogative Cuban-Canarian Intonation in

The Interrogative Cuban-Canarian Intonation in

THE INTERROGATIVE CUBAN-CANARIAN INTONATION IN SPONTANEOUS
SPEAKING
Josefa Dorta Luis y José Antonio Martín Gómez
Laboratorio de Fonética, Universidad de La Laguna, Islas Canarias
[email protected] - [email protected]
This work is included inside the proyect “La entonación interrogativa y declarativa del
español de Canarias y su relación con la de Cuba y Venezuela” (FFI2010-16993) tied to the
macro-proyect AMPER (Atlas Multimedia de Prosodia del Espacio Románico). The
objective is the study of interrogative intonation in comparison between Cuba and Canary
Islands produced in a spontaneous style by men and women from the two meridional
varieties. It is concieved as a pilot study that will give way to a systematic comparative
work inside the reference proyect. What we pretend is to find out if intonation patterns of
both varieties match in the fundamental, as in how we established in our initial hypothesis.
On the other hand, the relevance of the comparison radicates in that we apply for the first
time a common methodology, as in, the established by AMPER, which will allow us to
establish the relationship between the analyzed patterns upon a same basis, which is
fundamental, not only to relate the two analyzed varieties, but also because studies of this
kind contribute to begin determining the intonational characteristics of a romanic language
such as Spanish above other romanic languages.