Intonation of Evaluative Utterances in Guatemalan Spanish: Data from PRESEEA corpus

ABSTRACT This article analyzes intonation in evaluative utterances from PRESEEA Guatemala corpus, aiming to identify the distinctive characteristics of this type of utterance in comparison to declarative or representative utterances, which primarily serve to refer to reality. To achieve this, utterances were collected from sociolinguistics interviews involving six participants-three men and three women-belonging to the second generation and representing three different levels of education. The data were analyzed following the parameters of the Autosegmental-Metrical Model and annotated using the Sp_ToBI system. The findings indicate that, despite the evaluative nature of the utterance examined, they follow the same nuclear configuration as declarative utterances. KEY WORDS: Intonation, Declarative Utterances, Evaluative Utterance, PRESEEA, Guatemala.