Partículas discursivas y prosodia: Los marcadores de control de contacto ¿sabes? y ¿entiendes?

"¿Sabes?" and "¿entiendes?" are discourse particles used for contact control that serve a phatic-appellative function, to a greater or lesser extent phatic or appellative, to which a modalizing, intensifying, and occasionally mitigating value is added, either as a primary or subsidiary feature. In their description, the importance of prosody is often emphasized as a determining factor in establishing their function, but there are few studies that comprehensively analyze such prosodic behavior. Our starting hypothesis is that the functional diversity of these markers is associated with their prosodic versatility due, among other factors, to the position they occupy in discourse, following the model of oral discourse units proposed by the Val.Es.Co. Group (Val.Es.Co. Group, 2014). We analyze their prosodic realization to establish trends of regularity that enhance their description: this is a proposal that combines functional, positional, and prosodic criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]