![]() ![]() It shows that elliptical and insubordinated clauses differ in prosody. The thesis argues that prosody is an acoustic cue of the level of dependence of the studied constructions. The theoretical contribution to insubordination is made both by means of acoustic and perceptual data. In addition to that, the data contributes to the dialectal description of prosody since two undescribed patterns to realize contrastive declaratives have been found in Seville (¡H*L% y H+L*L%). The data shows that the intonation of insubordinated clauses depends on their discursive function. From the descriptive point of view, the thesis describes the prosodic realization of seven elliptical and seven insubordinated constructions in four locales of Spain (Madrid, Cantabria, Barcelona and Seville). Among them, the most salient contribution is a rule-based system for the recognition and transcription of prosody that uses a Sp_ToBI and Cat_ToBI labelling conventions. From the methodological point of view, the thesis presents several scripts created by the thesis author. The third goal is theoretical: using the prosodic results to explain current issues in the theory of insubordination, and, in particular, determining the level of syntactic dependence of constructions using their prosody. The second goal is mainly descriptive: the prosodic description of connective-argumentative insubordinated constructions and elliptical constructions in Spanish. The first one is methodological: creating tools that ease the prosodic analysis of data. This thesis sheds light on the prosodic realization of independent (insubordinated) clauses with subordination marks in Spanish.
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