Hacia una descripción prosódica del español culto de Santiago de Chile: resultados de una investigación

Abstract

This article contains the final results of the research project FONDECYT 197/1053 whose aim is to attempt a description of educated Spanish as spoken in Santiago, Chile from a holistic viewpoint that considers the form and function of the prosodic systems at work in the variety under study. In the light of the results obtained from the auditory and acoustic analyses of samples taken from a 25-hour corpus of spoken Spanish, a description of the behaviour of the prosodic subsystems that interact with the segmental system to convey significant differences in meaning is proposed.