Intonational convergence in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish spontaneous speech

Publikationstyp:
Kapitel
Metadaten:
DOI
10.3726/b17903
Editoren
  • Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff
  • Maria Selig
  • Christine Mooshammer
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2021
Status
Published
Herausgeber
Peter Lang D
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b17903
Datum der Datenerfassung
2021
Titel
Prosody and Conceptional Variation

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Abstract
The present contribution investigates the intonation of the Sofian variety of Judeo-Spanish (JUSPA). Based on a corpus of narrative interviews recorded by four mature female JUSPA-Bulgarian bilinguals and four same-aged monolingually raised speakers of Sofian Bulgarian, it is shown that the Bulgarian of both speaker groups is characterized by higher F0 maxima, a wider pitch range and a more variable pitch as compared to the JUSPA data produced by the bilinguals. Likewise, the Bulgarian data present shorter pauses and longer Intonational Phrases (IPs). This suggests that the bilinguals feel insecure when speaking JUSPA, their original L1, which has been increasingly replaced by the surrounding language, Bulgarian. An autosegmental-metrical analysis of the corpus reveals that they use the same inventory of pitch accents and boundary tones in both of their languages and that differences between the data sets refer to the frequencies of use of the very same targets, but not to different tonal repertoires. We interpret this finding as an instance of prosodic convergence but at the same time attribute it to L1 attrition under the influence of the individuals’ dominant language.
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DOI
10.3726/b17903
Editoren
  • Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff
  • Maria Selig
  • Christine Mooshammer
ISBN-10
3631819897
ISBN-13
9783631819890
Paginierung
171 - 190, 20
Buchtitel
Prosody and Conceptional Variation
Ort der Veröffentlichung
Frankfurt
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2021
Herausgeber
Peter Lang D
Datum der Datenerfassung
2022
Series
Studia Romanica et Linguistica
Titel
Intonational convergence in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish spontaneous speech
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65

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