AMPER-Argentina: tonemas en oraciones interrogativas absolutas

Final contours in absolute interrogative sentences without expansion are acoustically analyzed. The corpus is integrated by emissions SVO (SN + SV + SPrep). The SN has pitch accents and lexical stresses within paroxytone words (La guitarra ‘the guitar’), proparoxytone words (La cítara ‘the zither’) and oxytone words (El saxofón ‘the saxophone’). The SV is common to all the emissions: se toca ‘is played’. The SPrep has pitch accents and lexical stresses in paroxytone items (con paciencia ‘with patience’), in proparoxytone items (con pánico ‘with panic’) and in oxytone items (con obsesión ‘with obsession’). The corpora are emitted by two female informants without high school studies, they are Buenos Aires Spanish speakers. The recordings are made by means of the elicitation task technique, in three repetitions of each interrogative sentence. The results indicate that the final contour is circumflex in paroxytone and proparoxytone words. However, the final contour in oxytone words is rising: a truncation effect.