A05 - Prominence marking and language contact in Spanish
The basic goal of the project is to determine the most important prominence marking strategies in Yucatecan Spanish against the background of the variety's longstanding and ongoing contact with Yucatec Maya. The project addresses "structural prominence marking", i.e. structural constraints on phrasing and accentuation, as well as "pragmatic prominence marking" destined to highlight particular constituents for pragmatic reasons. The central aim of the current project phase is to compare the structural and pragmatic prominence marking properties of YS, YM, and standard Mexican Spanish by means of cross-linguistic comparison of production data and acceptability judgments. In later stages, we will also deal with loan word prosody and perception data, and we aim at elaborating a contact model which is appropriate to account for the exaptation and/or grammaticalization of prosodic features.
Team
Nuria Martínez García
Doctoral student A05
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.09E-Mail: n.martinezgarcia(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89915
Patrick Auhagen
Student assistant A05
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.12E-Mail: cauhagen(at)smail.uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89915
Verena Schlemmer
Student assistant A05
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.12E-Mail: vschlem1(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89915
Publications
2021
- Uth, Melanie. 2021. Same or different? Prosodic prominence and information structure in Yucatecan Spanish in picture-based elicitation compared to natural speech. In Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff, Maria Selig & Christine Mooshammer (eds.), Prosody and conceptional variation, 75–91. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
2020
- Uth, Melanie & Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo. 2020. Language contact and intonation: Evidence from contrastive focus marking and loanwords in Yucatecan Spanish and Yucatec Maya. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 97(1). 31-57.
- Uth, Melanie & Nuria Martínez García. 2020. Circumflex nuclear configurations in Yucatecan Spanish as a supraregional feature: The roles of bilingualism and gender. Special issue of Language and Speech (Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP)) 4.
2019
- Gutiérrez-Bravo, Rodrigo, Martín Sobrino & Melanie Uth. 2019. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish. In Ángel J. Gallego (ed.), The syntactic variation of Spanish dialects, 275-296. Oxford: University Press.
- Martínez García, Nuria & Constantijn Kaland. 2019. The prosody of repeated mentions in Yucatecan Spanish. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), 2494-2498. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. pdf
- Martínez García, Nuria & Melanie Uth. 2019. Lack of syllable duration as a post-lexical acoustic cue in Spanish in contact with Maya. Languages, 4(4). 84-104.
- Uth, Melanie. 2019. Traces of language contact in intonation: The case of Yucatecan Spanish. In Yolanda Congosto & Laura Morgenthaler García (eds.), Spanish in Context 16(3). 353-389.
2018
- García García, Marco & Melanie Uth. 2018. Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond (Studies in Language Companion Series). (Eds.) Marco García García & Melanie Uth. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
- Uth, Melanie. 2018. Focus realization at the syntax-prosody interface: Yucatecan Spanish opposed to standard Mexican Spanish. In Marco García García & Melanie Uth (eds.), Focus realization in Romance and Beyond, 71-98. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
- Uth, Melanie. 2018. Language contact as a developmental co-determinant between systems and exemplars. Spanish and Yucatec Maya in Quintana Roo. Cologne: University of Cologne. Habilitation.
- Uth, Melanie & Marco García García. 2018. Introduction: Core issues of focus realization in Romance. In Marco García García & Melanie Uth (eds.), Focus realization in Romance and Beyond, 1-30. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2017
- Martínez García, Nuria. 2017. /b d g/ en Quintana Roo (Yucatán). Estructura prosódica y lenguas en contacto. In Victoria Marrero Aguiar & Eva Estebas Vilaplana (eds.), Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental. Current Trends in Experimental Phonetics, 165-170. Madrid: UNED.