An Analysis of the Fundamental Frequency of Costa Rican Immigrants in Chile Based on WhatsApp Audio Recordings

 

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Bibliografiset tiedot
Tekijä: Ledezma Rodríguez, Randall
Aineistotyyppi: artículo original
Tila:Versión publicada
Julkaisupäivä:2026
Kuvaus:This article analyzes the tonal patterns of Costa Rican immigrants in Chile compared to Chilean and native Costa Rican speakers using WhatsApp audio messages. Immigrants tend to converge towards Chilean prosody in workplace interactions, with a median of 19.06 semitones and a wide tonal range (94.27 Hz to 180.84 Hz). However, they retain aspects of their original prosody when addressing Costa Ricans. The latter exhibit a stable style with less variation (13.84 semitones, 97.07 Hz to 149.34 Hz). The findings highlight the significance of the sociolinguistic context in prosodic adaptation.  
Maa:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisaatio:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Kieli:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/6948
Linkit:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rkanina/article/view/6948
Sanahaku:Prosodic convergence
fundamental frequency
immigration
sociolinguistics
linguistic adaptation
Convergencia prosódica
frecuencia fundamental
inmigración
sociolingüística
adaptación lingüística
Convergence prosodique
fréquence fondamentale
sociolinguistique
adaptation linguistique
Convergenza prosodica
frequenza fondamentale
immigrazione
sociolinguistica
adattamento linguistico