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Martínez García, María Nuria ORCID: 0000-0002-5703-7133 (2020). Prosodically Conditioned Realization of Voiced Stops and Vowels in Yucatecan Spanish. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

This dissertation investigates the acoustic nature and distribution of prosodic strengthening in relation to the Prosodic Word domain and prosodic prominence in Yucatecan Spanish. In order to do so, phonologically voiced stops and word-initial vowels were examined in a corpus of sociolinguistic interviews and a read speech task with 16–21 speakers of the variety. The results provide evidence for prosodic strengthening of both voiced stops and word-initial vowels. The acoustic manifestations of prosodic strengthening of voiced stops are (i) longer duration, (ii) greater change in intensity, and, in extreme cases of strengthening, (iii) presence of a release burst. Strengthening of word-initial vowels is manifested through glottalization, which is present in the first portion of the vowel. Prosodic strengthening occurs in PW-initial position and especially under lexical stress, although accentuation may also play a role. Thus, prosodic strengthening is used to indicate (post)lexical prominence and boundaries at the PW level. In terms of speaker-specific variation, Yucatec Maya language dominance does not appear to favor more strengthened realizations either of voiced stops or word-initial vowels, while gender has no effect on the distribution of strengthened realizations. Finally, a proposal is made for the strengthening of voiced stops and glottalization of word-initial vowels being used to mark the left edges of a recursive PW in Yucatecan Spanish.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Martínez García, María Nuria UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5703-7133 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-383381
Date:	September 2020
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Linguistik > Phonetik
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Spanish English Yucatecan Spanish English Yucatec Maya English language dominance English Prosodic Word French prosodic strengthening English prosodic prominence English voiced stops English glottalization of vowels English acoustic phonetics English corpus speech English read speech English
Date of oral exam:	27 January 2021
Referee:	Name Academic Title Grice, Martine Pr. Dr. Uth, Melanie PD Dr. Mücke, Doris PD Dr.
Funders:	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Project-ID 281511265 – SFB 1252 Prominence in Language, in the project A05: Prominence marking and language contact in Spanish, at the University of Cologne
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/38338