Darío Fuentes-Grandón

University of Concepción · Departamento de Español

The aim of the present study was to compare emergent literacy profiles among Spanish-speaking preschoolers with and without developmental language disorders (DLD), based on phonological and lexical skills, working memory (WM), and analogical reasoning (AR, including verbal and nonverbal). The study sample was composed of 123 children aged 47- 62 mo...

Abstract: A quantitative exploratory study that aims to determine the influence of the pragmatic value variable in the absolute length of stressed vowel (phoneme / i /) present in appreciative suffix -ito in Chilean Spanish is presented in this article. A protocol with several samples of the different pragmatic uses of the diminutive suffix in cont...

A quantitative exploratory study that aims to determine the influence of the pragmatic value variable in the absolute length of stressed vowel (phoneme / i /) present in appreciative suffix -ito in Chilean Spanish is presented in this article. A protocol with several samples of the different pragmatic uses of the diminutive suffix in context was cr...

The aim of this paper is to describe the phonetic-articulatory and acoustic features present in obstruents of Chilean Spanish pronounced by twelve secondary school French speakers who learn Spanish as a foreign language in the French educational system. On the basis of the data obtained from the auditory and acoustic analysis, segments were classif...

This work studied the approximant realizations of phonemes /v/ and /ð/ of Alto Bío-Bío's chedungun, a variety of mapudungun. The first articulatory and spectrographic descriptions were made through audio and audiovisual recordings from nine collaborators. Praat scripts were used during the normalization, labeling and acoustic analysis process. The...

This work studied the approximant realizations of phonemes /v/ and /o/ of Alto Bío-Bío's chedungun, a variety of mapudungun. The first articulatory and spectrographic descriptions were made through audio and audiovisual recordings from nine collaborators. Praat scripts were used during the normalization, labeling and acoustic analysis process. The...

El siguiente trabajo de investigación se enmarca en la sociolingüística cuantitativa y busca dar cuenta del fenómeno de la variación de /s/ en posición codal en una muestra de profesionales chilenos. Además de describir la variación del fonema /s/ en posición codal, este estudio busca determinar la variación de /s/ codal en relación con 3 variables...