Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

The main purpose of this discussion is that of throwing light on the following questions:

Which cases of emphatic and stylised boundary tones could be classified as dialect-specific and should therefore be labelled in a more detailed way?

And in this context, is the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI flexible enough?

Labelling difficulties in cases of complex pitch movements will be exemplified by means of fragments extracted from a new corpus of conversations recorded in Mexico City.

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Case 1:

Declaratives before pause (implicitly asking for feedback)

Rising boundary tone (simple rise or rise-fall) after high tone

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Case 2:

Declaratives with suspended boundary tone

Long middle tone after a high tone

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

Dialect-specific difficulties within the tone inventory of Sp-ToBI

Eduardo Velázquez – 2nd Sp-ToBI Wokshop, UAB, 22nd June 2005

For more information, please contact:

Eduardo Velázquez

Füllerstr. 55, D-60431 Frankfurt / Main

+(49) 69 - 9494 - 5228

utka-mex@t-online.de