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This paper presents the first "Prosodic Map of Chile", a long-term project aimed at documenting and describing (both phonetically and phonologically) the suprasegmental features of Chilean Spanish. In order to better appreciate the map's reach, a review of currently implemented similar prosodic maps is provided, including AMPER, ATLES and some others. This review considers what particular parameters are studied in each map, closely inspecting what are the foundations, directions and the overall reach of each one of them. The closing section provides a consideration of some freely available software tools designed to build maps, particularly OpenStreetMap, focusing on its potential for future international collaborative efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper presents initial findings regarding the analysis of rising intonation contours in final, broad focus declarative utterances recorded in Chiloé (Chile). These utterances-- unlike the great majority that have been reported in different varieties of Spanish and characterized by a falling nuclear configuration--exhibit a rising terminal pitch. The first acoustic data of conversational speech are analysed and preliminary phonological observations are made. Acoustic evidence of the rise is included, together with tentative phonological labelling and, finally, questions are raised and possibilities for further investigation are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show the results of phonetic-pragmatic analysis applied to the discourse markers a ver, bueno, claro, vale, ¿cómo? and ya in semi-spontaneous speech. The objective is to determine the incidence of acoustic-phonetic patterns upon the perception of the pragmatic meaning of 'anger', 'assent' and 'strangeness'. To achieve this, a procedure to obtain data was designed. This data was then examined according to the acoustic phase of the protocol of melodic speech analysis, proposed by Cantero and Font (2009). It is, therefore, an exploratory study about experimental phonetic based on pragmatics. The main results highlight the facts that a) there is a phonetic pattern for the analyzed discourse markers, at least in the Chilean variety of the Spanish language, formed tonetically by /- interrogative, - suspended, + emphatic/; and b) the variation in the suprasegmental phonetics configuration of the discursive units studied is related to the variation of the pragmatic meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]