The goals of this study are to compare and contrast the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spani... more The goals of this study are to compare and contrast the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS) and to determine the degree of variation between speakers according to the sociolinguistic variables of age and gender. This study deals with the prosodic patterns of three basic sentence types — declarative, wh-questions and exclamatory — of BAS as spoken by men, women and children of different age groups. The classic norms of Spanish prosody — established by Navarro Tomas (1944/1974) — were later supported experimentally for Ibero-Spanish and various Latin American dialects (Quilis 1993, Sosa 1999, Beckman et al. 2002) including for BAS in particular (Toledo 2000, Colantoni & Gurlekian 2002, 2004, Enbe 2003, Barjam 2004) but these studies did not consider the sociolinguistic parameters of age and gender as variables of prosodic variation. To the best of our knowledge, the first time these variables were analyzed for BAS was in Enbe et al. (2006). The data were elicited by a re...
The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BA... more The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS) in two different populations: (1) speakers with typical or normal speech (NS) and (2) speakers with atypical or pathological speech (PS) (e.g: stuttering, dysarthria, acquired hearing impairment, developmental speech disorder and dysphonia). This research aims to describe, compare and contrast the suprasegmental features of intonation in typical and atypical speech to establish new ways to evaluate and to treat speech impairments.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * We would like to express our appreciation and thank to the t... more Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * We would like to express our appreciation and thank to the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and salient suggestions on an earlier version of this paper. All errors that remain are our own.
... 22 Orly Halpern & Yishai Tobin major processes of phonological errors (Hudgins & Num... more ... 22 Orly Halpern & Yishai Tobin major processes of phonological errors (Hudgins & Numbers 1942; Carrel 1968; Markides 1970; Oller & Kelly 1974; Smith 1975; Ingram 1989; Ling 1989; Flexer ... 1983; Markides 1986; Monsen 1987; Abrahams 1989; Plant 1993; Whitehead et al. ...
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * We would like to express our appreciation and thank to the t... more Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * We would like to express our appreciation and thank to the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and salient suggestions on an earlier version of this paper. All errors that remain are our own.
according to the variables of gender and age. The corpus contains declarative, whquestion and exc... more according to the variables of gender and age. The corpus contains declarative, whquestion and exclamatory sentences, uttered in a repetition task by 72 native speakers, 36 males/36 females equally divided into three age groups (5-8; 18-50; 51-75). The data were analyzed using the Autosegmental Metrical model with the ToBI system adopted for Argentine Spanish. The results were explained according to the principle that language represents a compromise in the struggle to achieve maximum communication through minimal effort Davis /1987. The data show an inverse proportion between the difficulty of the sentence and the range of prosodic variation. The most simple declarative sentence has the largest variation for both gender and age. In the most difficult wh-questions, speakers prefer marked patterns with variation in gender and age. In the less difficult exclamatory sentence, there were minor differences for both gender and age. Our data indicate that: (1) females of all ages consistently prefer marked forms; (2) male children tend to follow adult female speakers; (3) adult males have more random patterns and (4) adults (18-50) of both genders have the most variation in wh-questions.
The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BA... more The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS) in two different populations: (1) speakers with typical or normal speech (NS) and speakers with atypical or pathological speech (PS) (e.g: stuttering, dysarthria, acquired hearing impairment, developmental speech disorder and dysphonia).
The goals of this study are to compare and contrast the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spani... more The goals of this study are to compare and contrast the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS) and to determine the degree of variation between speakers according to the sociolinguistic variables of age and gender. This study deals with the prosodic patterns of three basic sentence types — declarative, wh-questions and exclamatory — of BAS as spoken by men, women and children of different age groups. The classic norms of Spanish prosody — established by Navarro Tomas (1944/1974) — were later supported experimentally for Ibero-Spanish and various Latin American dialects (Quilis 1993, Sosa 1999, Beckman et al. 2002) including for BAS in particular (Toledo 2000, Colantoni & Gurlekian 2002, 2004, Enbe 2003, Barjam 2004) but these studies did not consider the sociolinguistic parameters of age and gender as variables of prosodic variation. To the best of our knowledge, the first time these variables were analyzed for BAS was in Enbe et al. (2006). The data were elicited by a re...
The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BA... more The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS) in two different populations: (1) speakers with typical or normal speech (NS) and (2) speakers with atypical or pathological speech (PS) (e.g: stuttering, dysarthria, acquired hearing impairment, developmental speech disorder and dysphonia). This research aims to describe, compare and contrast the suprasegmental features of intonation in typical and atypical speech to establish new ways to evaluate and to treat speech impairments.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * We would like to express our appreciation and thank to the t... more Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * We would like to express our appreciation and thank to the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and salient suggestions on an earlier version of this paper. All errors that remain are our own.
... 22 Orly Halpern & Yishai Tobin major processes of phonological errors (Hudgins & Num... more ... 22 Orly Halpern & Yishai Tobin major processes of phonological errors (Hudgins & Numbers 1942; Carrel 1968; Markides 1970; Oller & Kelly 1974; Smith 1975; Ingram 1989; Ling 1989; Flexer ... 1983; Markides 1986; Monsen 1987; Abrahams 1989; Plant 1993; Whitehead et al. ...
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * We would like to express our appreciation and thank to the t... more Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * We would like to express our appreciation and thank to the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and salient suggestions on an earlier version of this paper. All errors that remain are our own.
according to the variables of gender and age. The corpus contains declarative, whquestion and exc... more according to the variables of gender and age. The corpus contains declarative, whquestion and exclamatory sentences, uttered in a repetition task by 72 native speakers, 36 males/36 females equally divided into three age groups (5-8; 18-50; 51-75). The data were analyzed using the Autosegmental Metrical model with the ToBI system adopted for Argentine Spanish. The results were explained according to the principle that language represents a compromise in the struggle to achieve maximum communication through minimal effort Davis /1987. The data show an inverse proportion between the difficulty of the sentence and the range of prosodic variation. The most simple declarative sentence has the largest variation for both gender and age. In the most difficult wh-questions, speakers prefer marked patterns with variation in gender and age. In the less difficult exclamatory sentence, there were minor differences for both gender and age. Our data indicate that: (1) females of all ages consistently prefer marked forms; (2) male children tend to follow adult female speakers; (3) adult males have more random patterns and (4) adults (18-50) of both genders have the most variation in wh-questions.
The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BA... more The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS) in two different populations: (1) speakers with typical or normal speech (NS) and speakers with atypical or pathological speech (PS) (e.g: stuttering, dysarthria, acquired hearing impairment, developmental speech disorder and dysphonia).
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