Presentation of the results of the analysis of the melodic features of 77 emphatic utterances in the spontaneous speech of 33 native speakers of Swedish who speak Spanish as a foreign language, using the MAS method (Melodic Analysis of Speech), to characterise the emphatic intonation of their phonic interlanguage, compare it with that of Spanish and develop suitable didactic proposals for its improvement.
Emphatic intonation is complex and difficult to systematise as it presents a wide variety of curves and serves to express different pragmatic categories, such as emotional expression, (im)politeness, irony, etc. Furthermore, it is conditioned by other linguistic, contextual and non-verbal factors. Therefore, it is the field of intonation that is least studied, particularly regarding the analysis of interlanguage, which we believe should be looked at in more depth.
The proposal involves the presentation of the results of the analysis of the melodic features of a corpus of 77 emphatic utterances in the spontaneous speech of 33 native Swedish speakers who speak Spanish as a foreign language and have at least a B1 level, following the Melodic Analysis of Speech method (Cantero & Font-Rotchés, 2009, 2020).
The study is part of a wider research project dedicated to characterising the intonation of Spanish spoken by Swedish people, motivated by the observation of communicative difficulties in the classroom caused by inadequate intonation and the lack of an objective study that allows didactic proposals to be developed.
The aim is to describe the melodic features of the emphatic intonation of Spanish spoken by Swedish people and compare them with those of Peninsular Spanish (Cantero et al., 2005; Cantero & Font-Rotchés, 2007) to elaborate the characterisation of its phonic interlanguage and be able to develop suitable didactic proposals for its improvement.
