Claudia Enbe

Kaye Academic College of Education · Specialization in early childhood and primary school

This study examines the prosody of Buenos Aires Spanish in speakers with typical and atypical speech (stuttering, dysarthria, acquired hearing impairment, developmental speech disorder, and dysphonia) in three age groups equally divided for gender (5–8, 18–50, and 51–78). The corpus contained simple declarative sentences, wh-questions, and exclamat...

This paper contrasts the intonation of Buenos Aires Spanish with classic Spanish according to the variables of gender and age. The corpus contains declarative, wh-question 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 analyz...

The goal of the present study is to determine the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS) for declarative, wh-questions and excalamtory sentences in two different populations: (1) speakers with typical or normal speech (NS) and (2) speakers with atypical or pathological speech (PS). The results show that PS speakers consistently show more...

RESUMEN: Este estudio examina la entonación del español de Buenos Aires en los componentes de acentos tonales y contornos terminales para hablantes de habla normal (HN) y de habla patológica (HP). La población contiene 132 hablantes de HN y 18 de HP, divididos equitativamente según sexo en tres grupos etarios (5-8, 18-50 and 51-78). El corpus se co...