BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:15090-9510f89e813fa4af8405e2049c071845@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260430T183024Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T103000 SUMMARY:“Language Differentiation and Generational Effects on Yes/No Question In tonation in Palenquero/Spanish Bilinguals” DESCRIPTION:\nThis study explores whether Palenquero/Spanish bilinguals keep their languages intonationally distinct in yes/no questions. Recent findings suggest that these speakers could still maintain some degree o f temporal and intonational differentiation between their languages. The y tend to produce flat or plateau-shaped intonation as well as penultima te lengthening\, in Palenquero\, and initial rises followed by steeper d eclinations as well as a more reduced penultimate lengthening\, in Spani sh. Unlike the elderly\, young adults do not exhibit temporal distinctio ns at the right edge of statements. However\, straightforward evidence i s still scarce\, and it is unclear to what extent these speakers differe ntiate their languages at the prosodic level. Using Functional Principal Component Analysis along with linear regression analyses\, we have stud ied yes/no questions uttered by Palenquero/Spanish bilinguals\, in two u nilingual discourse completion tasks. Our results show that young adults are more sensitive to the stress pattern associated with the final word \, while elderly speakers tend to produce final intonation language-spec ifically. Thus\, young adults behave in a way similar to other Spanish s peakers in the Caribbean\, whereas elderly speakers\, in contrast\, seem to have overgeneralized the truncation rule of Caribbean Spanish yes/no questions. Therefore\, most of their Spanish questions end in a “trunca ted” way.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/barrios/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This study expl ores whether Palenquero/Spanish bilinguals keep their languages intonati onally distinct in yes/no questions. Recent findings suggest that these speakers could still maintain some degree of temporal and intonational d ifferentiation between their languages. They tend to produce flat or pla teau-shaped intonation as well as penultimate lengthening, in Palenquero , and initial rises followed by steeper declinations as well as a more r educed penultimate lengthening, in Spanish. Unlike the elderly, young ad ults do not exhibit temporal distinctions at the right edge of statement s. However, straightforward evidence is still scarce, and it is unclear to what extent these speakers differentiate their languages at the proso dic level. Using Functional Principal Component Analysis along with line ar regression analyses, we have studied yes/no questions uttered by Pale nquero/Spanish bilinguals, in two unilingual discourse completion tasks. Our results show that young adults are more sensitive to the stress pat tern associated with the final word, while elderly speakers tend to prod uce final intonation language-specifically. Thus, young adults behave in a way similar to other Spanish speakers in the Caribbean, whereas elder ly speakers, in contrast, seem to have overgeneralized the truncation ru le of Caribbean Spanish yes/no questions. Therefore, most of their Spani sh questions end in a “truncated” way.

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