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Building on the notions of primary and secondary orality, language economics, and the study of intonation as one of the first oral inputs learned by human beings, this essay shares results of a study of intonation patterns used on TV newscasts broadcasted in Galician, Spanish, and Portuguese in the Iberian Peninsula. Sixteen sound files per language were recorded and analyzed using Praat. The different intonation patterns identified in anchors, interviewers, and interviewees in the three languages explored provide good examples of how two linguistic imaginaries, Castilian Spanish and Galician, coexist in Galicia redefining and re-appropriating what is known as Galician and Galician Spanish, making these two languages spoken in Galicia function as a construct, reimagined and restructured by others, for its traditional native speakers.
Different portions of this article have been presented at the annual Conference of the Modern Languages Association in January 2016, at the Galician Studies Symposium organized at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in April 2014, and at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in 2012. The final version has benefitted from the feedback received at those meetings. I would also like to thank Gabriela DeRobles, Gabriela Carrión, Alyssa Pettera, and the editors of this volume, for their useful observations.
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Castro, O. (2017). The Perceived Presence/Absence of the Galician Accent on Galician TV Newscasts. In: Sampedro Vizcaya, B., Losada Montero, J. (eds) Rerouting Galician Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65729-5_14
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