The features of the declarative intonation of the Spanish spoken by Poles.

Abstract

This chapter aims to describe the features of the neutral declarative intonation of the Spanish interlanguage spoken by Poles. It follows the Melodic Analysis of Speech methodology presented in Cantero (2002) and exposed later in the form of a protocol in Cantero and Font-Rotchés (2009, 2020). The corpus is made up of 100 spontaneous declarative statements, issued by almost 30 informants. All the statements have been analyzed taking into account their three fundamental parts, the first peak, the body and the final inflection. The results can be concluded as follows: most of the contours lack the first peak and those that have it usually transfer it to the posterior unstressed. The body of most of the statements runs flat, or presents a permanent descent. The final inflection is usually flat and, sometimes, it is ascending or descending.