Abstract
This paper employs Castilian Spanish data to examine the issue of rising pitch accents and their phonological analysis. The preliminary Sp_ToBI annotation conventions are shown to be inadequate for representing the Castilian Spanish data, and therefore a revision is proposed. Through an examination of data on Castilian Spanish rising accents in a variety of sentence types, two primary contributions are made in this paper. First, new empirical data on the inventory of rising pitch accents in Castilian Spanish is provided, showing that there is a three-way contrast that must be accounted for. Secondly, an analysis of rising accents is proposed that is based on the secondary association of pitch accent tones that not only is able to account for the three-way contrast in rising accents, but which offers a more straightforward manner of assigning starredness in bitonal pitch accents.
Highlights
In October 1999, a workshop was held at The Ohio State University for the purpose of developing a transcription system for Spanish intonation within the Tones and Break Indices (ToBI) framework (Jun, 2005)
In this paper we will focus on the issue of rising accents and their phonological analysis, which is an area where the preliminary Sp_ToBI proposal encounters at least two basic problems: 1) the ambiguous manner by which starredness is assigned to one tone of bitonal pitch accents, and 2) the desire to provide a pan-Spanish ToBI system
We argue that by doing so for Castilian Spanish we offer a way for the AM model to deal with previously challenging data, and take a step towards making the Sp_ToBI system more transparent
Summary
In October 1999, a workshop was held at The Ohio State University for the purpose of developing a transcription system for Spanish intonation within the Tones and Break Indices (ToBI) framework (Jun, 2005). In this paper we will focus on the issue of rising accents and their phonological analysis, which is an area where the preliminary Sp_ToBI proposal encounters at least two basic problems: 1) the ambiguous manner by which starredness is assigned to one tone of bitonal pitch accents, and 2) the desire to provide a pan-Spanish ToBI system. We will propose an analysis based on the secondary association of pitch accent tones that is able to account for the three-way contrast in rising accents, but which offers a more straightforward manner of assigning starredness in bitonal pitch accents. We argue that by doing so for Castilian Spanish we offer a way for the AM model to deal with previously challenging data, and take a step towards making the Sp_ToBI system more transparent
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