Stress rules in paroxytones: Peninsular Spanish

Abstract

The rules of the three accents, primary (A1), secondary (A2) and terciary (A3), for paroxytone trisyllabic and tetrasyllabic words in a corpus of Peninsular Spanish in the discourse of six informants (corpora of the International Diffusion of Spanish. The Language of the Radio and the Television, DIES-RTV-Spain, University of Alcalá de Henares) have been experimentally analized. The rules indicate a realization of the A2 in the first syllable of the word and the A1 in contact with A3, to left and right: A2+A1+A3 and A2+A3+A1+A3. Acoustic data, duration and F0, are obtained. The results do not confirm the rules: A1 stands out and the prominences are similar in A2 and A3. The results corroborate the data obtained in Latin American Spanish.