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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

tone, intensity, Spanish intonation patterns, acoustic parameters

College

Humanities

Department

Spanish and Portuguese

Abstract

Even among linguists, there exists some disagreement as to the contribution that various acoustic parameters make or don’t make to the perception of Spanish intonation patterns. The three parameters commonly in question are tone, intensity, and duration. While it is common to only include tone in the definition of intonation, this project adopts the idea that “the multitude of functions intonation actually has in communication requires more than just pitch variation for its fulfilment.” I designed this project to focus on the parameters of tone and intensity in order to test the hypothesis that the perception of intonation patterns in Spanish is not based on tone or intensity exclusively, but rather can be determined by either of these two acoustic parameters, depending on the utterance.

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