Presented by Miguel Garcia, Graduate Student at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, as part of the Continuity and Change in the Andes and Amazonia, Humanities Institute and CLAS Working Group.
My dissertation work focuses on Peruvian Amazonian Spanish (PAS), a yet understudied variety in the literature of Hispanic Linguistics. Particularly, I examine PAS intonational system and its interaction with the structure of the sentences, with the ultimate goal of presenting an integrated analysis of PAS intonation. In this talk, I will provide details about my dissertation and the motivation of the study. Furthermore, I will describe my research questions, and will include an initial analysis of the data collected in the city of Pucallpa, Peru, in the summer of 2014. I will also offer some preliminary results, and will discuss the overall implications of this research. With this dissertation, I hope to contribute to the recent and growing body of research on PAS by offering a unified analysis of PAS intonation based on experimental methods, going beyond early descriptions. Finally, this research gives insight into why PAS sounds different from other Spanish varieties.
Miguel Garcia is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with concentration in Phonetics & Phonology, and Sociolinguistics. For the past years, he has been conducting research fieldwork in the Amazonian region of Peru, and also in Lima.
