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The present study deals with the intonational patterns found in unmarked absolute interrogatives of Nortwestern Colombia. Our theoretical background is based on the methodology set up by Cantero & Font-Rotchés in 2009 (the Melodic Analysis of Speech method), which analyses spontaneous speech by obtaining intonational data from standardized melodies without irrelevant micromelodic variations and speaker-specific melodic characteristics. We analised 160 unmarked absolute questions of 16 speakers, all found in YouTube videos from the last decade. We set up two hypotheses: as Northwestern Colombia is near the Caribbean region, the characteristic intonational pattern of unmarked absolute interrogatives is falling. Rising Colombian interrogative patterns differ from the rising Peninsular Spanish intonational counterparts. Our hypotheses were partly confirmed: we found a relatively low number of utterances with falling intonation in our corpus, but the rising melodies differed from Peninsular Spanish rising interrogative patterns, especially concerning the starting point of the rise.
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