Elisa Fernández Rei

University of Santiago de Compostela | USC · Instituto da Lingua Galega

Proxecto Nós is an initiative aimed at providing the Galician language with openly licensed resources, tools, and demonstrators in the area of intelligent technologies. The Project has two main scientific and technological objectives: (i) to integrate the Galician language into cutting-edge AI and language technologies, thus enabling the natural us...

The development of language technologies (LTs) such as machine translation, text analytics, and dialogue systems is essential in the current digital society, culture and economy. These LTs, widely supported in languages in high demand worldwide, such as English, are also necessary for smaller and less economically powerful languages, as they are a...

O presente volume é constituído por uma parte dos textos apresentados ao II Congresso Internacional em Variação Linguística nas Línguas Românicas que teve lugar na Departamento de Línguas e Culturas da Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, nos dias 22, 23 e 24 de junho de 2021. Este evento científico, que deveria ter sido presencial, foi realizado on-l...

Este glosario es la 4ª ampliación de un antiguo opúsculo titulado Guía Básica de Fonética y Fonología (Pamies & Káloustova, 2002), un material didáctico y divulgativo, originalmente con cinco lenguas, creado para estudiantes de filología y de traducción, y profesores no especialistas. Las reediciones siguientes fueron incorporando más lenguas, ampl...

In recent decades, experimental studies in phonetics have undergone considerable progress thanks to the rapid development of the tools and the ease of access to computer technologies by the research community. In the field of Speech Perception, this technological flourishing involved the establishment of new methodological instruments, specifically...

This exploratory study presents an approach to the phonetic models of Galician Spanish (GS) by means of a small sample of six female speakers with different linguistic profiles. We analyze the production of stressed vowels, final unstressed vowels, and some intonation contours. Unlike earlier descriptions, we do not find direct transfer from Galici...

This exploratory study presents an approach to the phonetic models of Galician Spanish (GS) by means of a small sample of six female speakers with different linguistic profiles. We analyze the production of stressed vowels, final unstressed vowels, and some intonation contours. Unlike earlier descriptions, we do not find direct transfer from Galici...

Estudos de Lingüística Galega is a yearly journal established in 2009 with the objective of creating a forum for critical analysis and linguistic research and a place for discussion of the Galician language. https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/elg/issue/view/432

The need to promote studies on variation and linguistic change in present day Galician, and especially those aimed at the study of the spoken language, led the Institute of Galician Language (ILG) of the University of Santiago de Compostela to start the construction of a spoken corpus with transcripts aligned with audio recordings: CORILGA (Compute...

The aim of this article is to compare the intonation of information-seeking yes/no and wh- questions of some linguistic varieties of Galicia and Calabria, in order to contribute to the study of Romance prosody and the establishment of an intonative typology of the Romance languages. Thus, taking as basis the existing literature, the current study d...

The current study analyses the intonation of three types of utterances (broad focus statements, information-seeking yes-no questions and information-seeking wh-questions) in Galician and Spanish, in order to research the effects on the intonation of the prolonged contact between these two languages in Galicia. The main aims are to detect possible h...

In this paper, we study the geographical distribution of the nuclear configuration of information-seeking yes-no questions in western Iberian varieties, to check whether this prosodic feature has a dialectal and diachronic behavior like other phonetic or grammatical features. The objective is to explain the development of the linguistic boundaries...

O objetivo do projeto Análise dialectométrica e cartografia da variação linguística é aprofundar a metodologia de análise da variação linguística românica e, em particular, a variação geoprosódica, em três línguas da Península Ibérica: português, mirandês e galego. O âmbito dos estudos variacionistas experimentou um especial desenvolvimento nas últ...

The need to promote studies on variation and linguistic change in present day Galician, and especially those aimed at the study of the spoken language, led the Institute of Galician Language (ILG) of the University of Santiago de Compostela to start the construction of a spoken corpus with transcripts aligned with audio recordings: CORILGA (Compute...

Nesta comunicación analizamos textos orais de entrevistas semidirixidas realizadas a gandeiros de concellos do occidente da provincia da Coruña, no marco da chamada “terceira vaga” da sociolingüística, que pon o acento nas prácticas lingüísticas por medio das cales as persoas que falan se colocan a si mesmas no panorama social a través de prácticas...

Os neofalantes son definidos tradicionalmente como falantes que teñen como lingua familiar o castelán, pero que comezan a falar o galego de maneira case exclusiva en todas as súas interaccións. Normalmente, as súas motivacións son ideolóxicas ou políticas e son considerados un grupo moi activo socialmente. A consideración das persoas que cambiaron...

CORILGA é un corpus oral con transcricións ortográficas aliñadas co arquivo sonoro, nunha correlación temporal texto-voz. As transcricións están lematizadas e anotadas en diferentes niveis (fonético, morfolóxico, textual e temático). Esta aplicación permite realizar buscas combinadas de maneira funcional e inmediata, sen restricións de uso. O corpu...

We performed a production experiment taking into consideration the various sociolinguistic profiles of our informants and their use and degree of contact with the variety of Spanish spoken in Galicia.

p> Neste artigo preséntase unha visión panorámica dos estudos de fonética e fonoloxía galegas. Se aínda nos anos 1960 a fonética galega era practicamente descoñecida, os avances experimentados desde entón pretenden situar os estudos destas especialidades no ámbito da investigación lingüística internacional. Debido ás prioridades que ocuparon a axen...

Galician and Portuguese have a common origin. This genetic affiliation is not accompanied by any historical continuity (Monteagudo 2012: 38), as these language varieties were separated in a distant past, mainly through the establishment of a political and administrative boundary between their territories. This lack of contact is interesting when st...

Geoprosodic data are useful for studying language change and developing hypotheses about the diachrony of intonation. In the case of Galician, it is particularly interesting to study varieties of Galician and Portuguese which share a common origin but are separated by a long-standing political border. Work to date has concluded that some of these i...

This paper introduces a tool that performs segmentation and labelling of sound chains in phono units, syllables and/or words departing from a sound signal and its corresponding orthographic transcription. In addition, it also integrates acoustic analysis scripts applied to the Praat programme with the aim of reducing the time spent on tasks related...

The objective of this article is to present a new tool for building and conducting perceptual tests, FOLERPA (Ferramenta On-Line para Experimentación Perceptiva 'Online Tool for Perceptual Experimentation'). This is a package of online tools with open and free access which allows high-quality auditory perceptual experiments to be carried out in a v...

Realízase un estudo da entoación de galego e español de Galicia e atopamos resultados chamativos: 1. Non aparece proba ningunha de que o galego culto adopte os padróns de entoación do español (Regueira 2000). 2. Atopamos unha uniformidade case total na entoación de todas as falantes, con independencia da súa lingua habitual, da súa lingua familiar...

The Corpus Oral Informatizado da Lingua Galega (CORILGA) project aims at building a corpus of oral language for Galician, primarily designed to study the linguistic variation and change. This project is currently under development and it is periodically enriched with new contributions. The long-term goal is that all the speech recordings will be en...

SEA_AP (Segmentador e Etiquetador Automático para Análise Prosódica, Automatic Segmentation and Labelling for Prosodic Analysis) toolkit is an application that performs audio segmentation and labelling to create a TextGrid file which will be used to launch a prosodic analysis using Praat. In this paper, we want to describe the improved functionalit...

O objetivo geral do projeto Contacto e câmbio linguístico em galego é determinar as consequências do contacto entre variedades no galego atual e analisar a sua relação com as mudanças linguísticas que se têm produzido ao longo das últimas décadas. Para conseguirmos este objetivo realizar-se-á uma análise da documentação de língua oral de distintas...

Cover page of Dialectologia special issue. This special issue of Dialectologia is a selection of papers presented at the Colóquio Internacional de Geoprosódia do Português e do Galego, which took place at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, 2015.

Nos dias 17, 18 e 19 de junho de 2015, realizou-se, no Departamento de Línguas e Culturas da Universidade de Aveiro, o Colóquio Internacional de Geoprosódia do Português e do Galego. Este congresso pretendeu reforçar, divulgar e dar continuidade a investigações no domínio da geoprosódia das línguas românicas em geral, com destaque para as variedade...

This paper presents a computing tool, developed with the statistical software R, which allows a user to perform a dialectometric analysis of the prosodic data in the fixed corpus collected in the AMPER project. Since no previous knowledge about using R is assumed, this tool can be used by any user interested in such studies. The dialectometric anal...

El objetivo de este póster es presentar, a través del análisis de una revista en particular, Estudos de Lingüística Galega, las dificultades con las que se enfrentan las publicaciones periódicas vinculadas con áreas de conocimiento pequeñas, como es el caso de la lingüística gallega, especialmente cuando una parte muy sustancial de la producción ci...

Presentación sobre diferentes aspectos prosódicos de la lengua gallega actual, con especial atención a cambios producidos en diferentes niveles de la jerarquía prosódica, sobre todo en la sílaba, la palábra fonológica y la frase de entonación.

El objetivo de nuestra comunicación es presentar una nueva herramienta on-line destinada a la experimentación perceptiva: FOLERPA. La principal novedad que presenta frente a otras herramientas ya existentes es su versatilidad, su facilidad de uso y la incorporación de un módulo que permite obtener una estadística básica de los resultados obtenidos...

A presente pesquisa, inserida no projecto AMPER, vem na linha de outras no âmbito da variação prosódica do Galego e do Português. Tendo estas duas línguas uma origem comum, interessou-nos aferir do grau de proximidade/afastamento a nível prosódico de produções de ambos os lados do rio Minho. Para tal, realizaram-se estudos acústicos que servirão de...

Galician is one of the EU languages that needs further research before highly effective language technology solutions can be implemented. • CORILGA ("Corpus Oral Informatizado da Lingua Galega") is a large high-quality corpus of spoken Galician from the 1960s up to present-day, including both formal and informal spoken language from both standard a...

In the last decade, an important effort was made to describe the Galician intonation and its dialectal variation. This description, which was fundamentally acoustic, was developed using a corpus from 15 different points distributed all over Galicia. The diatopic study aroused interest in delimiting the prosodic dialectal areas of Galician language....

This paper describes the CORILGA (" Corpus Oral Informatizado da Lingua Galega "). CORILGA is a large high-quality corpus of spoken Galician from the 1960s up to present-day, including both formal and informal spoken language from both standard and non-standard varieties, and across different generations and social levels. The corpus will be availa...

Traditionally, suspension of the declination has been cited as one of the most important features in the intonation of polar questions in Galician. Nevertheless, in this paper 1 show the existence of interrogative patterns with declination in the language of some informants interviewed for the AMPER project. In the same way, 1 demonstrate that susp...

O presente estudo dá continuidade a pesquisas efectuadas no âmbito da variação prosódica comparada entre o Portu-guês e o Galego, inserido no âmbito do projecto AMPER. A pesquisa refere-se a oito informantes mulheres, quatro galegas e quatro portuguesas. Estruturas acentuais, tipos de frase e configurações sintácticas são equivalentes em ambas as l...

Since 2001, the Atlas Multimédia Prosodique de l�Espace Roman (AMPER) has glued several research teams from various laboratories, in Europe and America, aiming to give a description and a comparison of the prosodic features of Romance linguistic varieties. Thanks to the participation of a number of researchers (dialectologists, phoneticians, sociol...

This study aims to analyse, in a contrastive way, the prosodic variation in different accentual structures in the subject nominal syntagma of two types of sentences – the interrogative and the declarative one – in the varieties of the European Portuguese (EP) and the Galician (Gal.). The selected regions to the collections of the corpus were two...

La entonación tiene una serie de valores que van más allá de lo estrictamente lingüístico. En el caso de lenguas no tonales, también denominadas entonacionales o de entonación, las variaciones de frecuencia fundamental no se utilizan para la oposición de significados léxicos, sino que conforman la melodía de los enunciados. Esta melodía tiene funci...

This paper presents a study of interrogative sentences in the Catalan of Barcelona, the Spanish of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and the Galician spoken in Santiago de Compostela. After a brief acoustic description of the melody used in each language variety, the results of perception tests carried out with subjects from the three areas of study...

Dans cet article nous présentons les premiers résultats de l'analyse concernant le groupe de recherche AMPER-Galicia. Tout d'abord, nous décrivons de façon résumée, la constitution du corpus, la sélection des informateurs, ainsi que le protocole d'enregistrement et la constitution des fichiers sons correspondants. Dans l'ensemble des énoncés enregi...

Todos los estudiosos coinciden en que las voces humanas contienen rasgos que las personalizan y de este hecho se deduce que por esta razón es posible trabajar con ellas en el terreno de la identificación forense de hablantes. En lo que no hay acuerdo unánime, desde el punto de vista fonético, es en qué parámetros llevan información relevante en est...

Our aim in this paper is to complete the prosodic description of one type of speech from Santiago de Compostela, which we started in Fernández Rei et al. (2005), following the methodology proposed by the AMPER project (Atlas Multimédia Prosodiques de l�Espace Roman). By that time we focused only in the study of sentences with an SVO struture, but i...

This paper describes a morphosyntactic analyzer in Galician which, apart from its obvious linguistic interest, can be easily applied to speech recognition and speech synthesis systems. While rule-driven models produce the better performance, stochastic models have shown a comparable accuracy when properly designed. Moreover, rule-driven models are...

In this contribution we describe a corpus-based text-to-speech system for Galician. While traditional concatenative speech-synthesis systems generally employ a quite reduced set of speech units, corpus-based synthesis systems consider many instances of every unit and, by means of dynamic programming techniques, select the sequence of units that min...

LAVERCA é un programa composto por un conxugador verbal e un analizador de formas verbais. Presenta como principal novidade a incorporación de voz sintética, feminina e masculina, que se utiliza para a lectura dos verbos que se presentan en pantalla. Esta ferramenta permite a conxugación dos verbos galegos a partir do seu infinitivo, así como a aná...