Prosodic and syntagmatic limits: comparative study among various areas in Colombia and in the Canary Islands (Spain)

Abstract

This research has been conducted as part of the framework of the international project, AMPER, specifically the AMPER-Col and AMPER-Can. The main objective of this research is to analyze the demarcation hypothesis of fundamental frequency (F0) in the declarative and interrogative sentences of female and male voices. In order to do so, the following was analyzed: the peak/stress/syntagmatic border synchronizations in pretonemes and tonemes in SVO, S+EXP+V+O and S+V+O+EXP sentences whose nucleus and expansions (except V) are conformed by trisillable words with different stress categories (oxytones, paroxytones and proparoxytones). Results reveal a tendency of a general alignment between the peaks with post-tonic vowels and with syntagmatic borders, therefore confirming the demarcation hypothesis in Canarian and Colombian speech.