This paper introduces the melodic characterisation of spontaneous Spanish presented by speakers from two regions in the north of Spain: Asturias and Navarre, based on a conversational corpus composed ...of 100 utterances emitted by 62 participants. It focuses on the intonation of the dialects, an aspect which is poorly investigated but highly relevant for characterising and distinguishing one from the other.
The study is based on the Melodic Analysis of Speech method, a meticulous acoustic analysis through which exact values are obtained from spontaneous speech, which can then be compared. In short, the most notable coincident and divergent melodic features between the two dialects are: (1) the tendency of the two to present a first peak, more frequently tonic in Asturian Spanish and atonic in Navarrese; (2) an almost flat or slightly falling body of the contour with abundant internal inflections, which are also distinguished by the syllable where the rise ends: tonic in Asturian Spanish, and tonic and atonic in the final position of the word in Navarrese; and (3) more pronounced final inflections, with five different endings, and tonal fields, in the region of Navarre.
El derecho es una actividad profesional esencialmente lingüística. Desde los años 80 han proliferado estudios que han analizado las relaciones entre lingüística y derecho desde perspectivas diversas. ...El presente documento revisa la s principales áreas de investigación que se enmarcan en este vasto campo de estudio y presenta los artículos que conforman este volumen: cinco trabajos que constituyen dos bloques temáticos netamente diferenciados. El primero presenta dos muestras de cómo la lingüística puede ponerse al servicio de la resolución de problemas jurídicos; el segundo ofrece la perspectiva del jurista sobre cómo un mejor conocimiento del lenguaje e incluso de otros lenguajes ajenos al derecho puede aplicarse a la mejora de la co municación en el ámbito judicial.
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