El choque de acentos en español

Abstract

According to diverse studies, the procedures by which languages tend to avoid the accentual shock (stress clash) or succession of two stressed syllables in the same sequence are several. In the present work, dedicated to the study of the Spanish of the Canary Islands, we research on the possibility of corroborating or refuting this statement, when analyzing a corpus of experimental speech designed within the frame work of the international project AMPER (Atlas Multimedia de Prosodia del Espacio Románico). The most evident conclusion is that the departure statement is refuted since we confirmed that both stresses are preserved and reinforced by the three parameters traditionally used in the study of intonation, that is, by a considerable increase of the fundamental tone or F0, the duration and the intensity which causes about the clear prominence of the first stressed vowel over the preceding unstressed ones.