Intonation across Spanish, in the Tones and Break Indices framework 论文

摘要

This paper describes some of the more salient intonational phenomena of Spanish, and reviews several of the most pressing questions that remain to be addressed before a definitive model of the system can be incorporated into a
\nconsensus transcription system for the language. The phenomena reviewed
\ninclude the metrical underpinnings of the tune, and some of the local tone
\nshapes that are anchored at stressed syllables or at phrase edges in several
\ncommon intonation contours. The description of known facts is couched in
\nthe Autosegmental-Metrical model of intonational phonology, as is the review
\nof outstanding questions. The description is used to motivate the preliminary
\ntranscription conventions proposed by the Spanish ToBI development group.