• Event Date: January 31, 2012
  • Event Start Time: 3:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 4:00 PM
  • Event Location: Ohio State University/Universitat Pompeu-Fabra
  • Event Type: Other Events
  • Event Semester: Spring 2012
  • Event Contact: Meghan Armstrong
  • Event Extra info: <a href="http://sppo.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=2128">Meghan Armstrong</a>

 

Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS) is a language that often does not mark interrogativity syntactically for yes-no questions. Thus it is not uncommon for speakers to rely on intonational cues to interrogativity. In this talk I present an overview of the intonational contours used by speakers in the yes-no question domain with evidence from production and perception. The results reveal that the variety has a default contour (