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Acercamiento al análisis experimental del umbral de percepción entonativa en el español del centro de México

2016; National School of Languages, Linguistics and Translation; Volume: 34; Issue: 63 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22201/enallt.01852647p.2016.63.629

0185-2647

Laura Murrieta Bello,

Noise Effects and Management

This article reviews and expands the experiment reported by Pamies, Fernandez Planas, Martinez Celdran, Ortega & Amoros (2001) which aimed to establish a perception threshold where a tonal difference may reflect significant differences in the Spanish of Spain, as well as to harmonize the methodologies of previous works and the study of tone separately, in order to avoid biases that could potentially affect the results. The present investigation adopted these same objectives. The analysis in this article was performed from an experiment designed to investigate the perception of tonal differences in the Spanish language spoken in central Mexico. In addition, different statistical methods, such as the correlation between two variables, were used to find the pitch perception threshold. The results suggest that this threshold is around 1.5 semitones, but additional elements should also be considered, such as duration and intensity.