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Uth, Melanie and Gutierrez-Bravo, Rodrigo (2020). Language Contact and Intonation: Evidence from Contrastive Focus Marking and Loanwords in Yucatecan Spanish and Yucatec Maya. Bull. Hisp. Stud., 97 (1). S. 31 - 58. LIVERPOOL: LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1478-3398

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Abstract

This paper investigates the language contact between Yucatecan Spanish and Yucatec Maya (Mayan) in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, at the level of the intonational realization of contrastive focus, and by means of the prosody of Spanish loanwords in Yucatec Maya. In Yucatec Maya, the maximally prominent constituent of an utterance is generally located at the leftmost part of the Intonational Phrase that contains the predicate (Verhoeven & Skopeteas 2015 reported similar results for Yucatec Maya and Uth 2016 for Yucatecan Spanish) unlike standard Mexican Spanish (as Carme De la Mota, Pedro Martin Butragueno and Pilar Prieto recorded in 2010). Here we present the results of an intonational comparison of contrastive focus utterances of Yucatecan Spanish and Yucatec Maya in order to test the hypothesis that this similarity is due to contact. Furthermore, we present additional evidence in favour of the presence of a left high tone in Yucatec Maya, based on a pilot study on the pronunciation of Spanish loanwords.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Uth, Melanie UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Gutierrez-Bravo, Rodrigo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-350694
DOI:	10.3828/bhs.2020.3
Journal or Publication Title:	Bull. Hisp. Stud.
Volume:	97
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 31 - 58
Date:	2020
Publisher:	LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	LIVERPOOL
ISSN:	1478-3398
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Literature, Romance Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/35069