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In a previous work [Ana M. B. de Manrique and María I. Massone, submitted to J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (19791] a vowel effect on the identification of voiceless Spanish fricatives [f, s, ∫] in transitionless syllables was observed. The present... more
In a previous work [Ana M. B. de Manrique and María I. Massone, submitted to J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (19791] a vowel effect on the identification of voiceless Spanish fricatives [f, s, ∫] in transitionless syllables was observed. The present experiment was conducted to determine whether the lexical-semantic value of words neutralized the vowel effect just described. The test material consisted of two sets of six words each recorded by a male Spanish-speaker. The initial syllables which were one of the following: [so, su, fi, fe, ∫o, ∫u;], were gated out and replaced by the transitionless syllables previously mentioned by tape-splicing technique. Words in the first set allowed two alternatives: e.g. “suma” [suma] ‘he sums’/ “fuma” [fuma] ‘he smokes,’ words in the second set allowed no choice: e.g., “lluvia” [∫uβia] ‘rain.’ The results showed that the vowel effect is apparent when the phonetic percept evoked by this effect follows a lexical possibility, while it disappears when the phonetic percept competes with word identification. These data gives evidence of the level interaction in the speech perception process.
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EJ437775 - Kinship Terms in Argentine Sign Language.
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Actualmente, la Argentina es el escenario del impacto sociopolítico del discurso político de los líderes Sordos. Desde los 90, en el medio de una de las más dramáticas crisis económicas, los excluidos luchan por encontrar nuevas... more
Actualmente, la Argentina es el escenario del impacto sociopolítico del discurso político de los líderes Sordos. Desde los 90, en el medio de una de las más dramáticas crisis económicas, los excluidos luchan por encontrar nuevas identidades, y así el discurso político Sordo (DPS) emerge. El discurso de las ciencias sociales y sus prácticas llevan a la legitimación de la Lengua de Señas Argentina (LSA) y los lingüistas funcionamos como investigadores orgánicos. Las personas Sordas empiezan a convertirse en letrados a través del uso de las nuevas tecnologías y fuera de la escuela formal. El propósito de este trabajo es analizar la jerarquización de la información desde la Lingüística Funcional y el Análisis del Discurso en un corpus recolectado en el 2007. El análisis de los temas y los remas mostrará los objetivos y los contenidos que el DPS tira en la arena de la lucha sociopolítica. Hipotetizamos la existencia del Tema del Evento y Rema del Evento que pertenecen a la práctica discu...
Abstract Numeral-incorporating roots in the numeral systems of Argentine Sign Language (LSA) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC), as well as the main features of the number systems of both languages, are described and compared. Informants... more
Abstract Numeral-incorporating roots in the numeral systems of Argentine Sign Language (LSA) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC), as well as the main features of the number systems of both languages, are described and compared. Informants discussed the use of ...
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This paper examines the acoustic properties of Argentine Spanish fricatives and the spectral cues in recognition of these consonants. It was observed that [s] spectrally peaks around 5000 and 8000 Hx, [formula: see text] around 2500 and... more
This paper examines the acoustic properties of Argentine Spanish fricatives and the spectral cues in recognition of these consonants. It was observed that [s] spectrally peaks around 5000 and 8000 Hx, [formula: see text] around 2500 and 5000 Hz, [f] around 1500 and 8500 Hz, [x] around 1000 and 4000 Hz and [ç] around 2000 and 4000 Hz. The perceptual importance of each of these spectral peaks was determined by filtering and synthesis experiments. With regard to the voice fricatives: [beta, ŏ, Y, Y, 3] the analysis showed periodic components with an F1 of similar frequency and a variable F2. Noise components with an F1 of similar frequency and a variable F2. Noise components were principally observed in [3]. Voiced fricatives proved to be shorter than voiceless ones. The analysis of fricatives in consonant-vowel syllables suggested that both the friction and vocalic portions may provide relevant acoustic cues. Tape-splicing experiments, designed to test this observation, showed that except for [x] and [Y], all Spanish fricatives were accurately identified by the friction portion alone. However, it was also observed that in transitionless syllables the vocalic portion affected the phonetic identification of the friction portion. This phenomenon pointed to the perceptual relevance of the transition in some combinations of fricatives and vowels.
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This study will provide an analytical perspective on the sociolinguistic implications of deafness in two South American countries: Argentina and Uruguay. Although Spanish is spoken in both these countries, they have different cultural... more
This study will provide an analytical perspective on the sociolinguistic implications of deafness in two South American countries: Argentina and Uruguay. Although Spanish is spoken in both these countries, they have different cultural backgrounds, which, äs we will describe, ...
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Four right-handed monolingual Spanish-speaking patients who developed a foreign accent syndrome (FAS) during the recovery period from a non-fluent aphasia or an aphemia are reported. The FAS resolved rapidly (within 2 months) in two... more
Four right-handed monolingual Spanish-speaking patients who developed a foreign accent syndrome (FAS) during the recovery period from a non-fluent aphasia or an aphemia are reported. The FAS resolved rapidly (within 2 months) in two patients, both with small stroke lesions in the posterior margin of the left middle frontal gyrus. In the other two patients, who had lesions involving the
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La mayoria de las investigaciones realizadas desde la decada del 60 hasta el presente sobre el analisis linguistico de las lenguas de senas se concentraron mayormente en la descripcion de las caracteristicas estructurales de las senas y... more
La mayoria de las investigaciones realizadas desde la decada del 60 hasta el presente sobre el analisis linguistico de las lenguas de senas se concentraron mayormente en la descripcion de las caracteristicas estructurales de las senas y de sus combinaciones en unidades del tamano de la oracion. Aun aquellas investigaciones que trataron aspectos de la macroestructura del discurso (Baker, 1976, 1977; Baker y Padden, 1978; Wilbur y Pettito, 1983; etc.) focalizaron su atencion en aspectos como toma de turnos, funciones linguisticas de los rasgos no manuales y limites oracionales.
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En la Argentina, al igual que en muchos otros paises de la region, los sordos siguen regresando de las escuelas especiales como analfabetos funcionales, ignorando las caracteristicas pragmaticas y socioculturales de la lengua escrita. Sin... more
En la Argentina, al igual que en muchos otros paises de la region, los sordos siguen regresando de las escuelas especiales como analfabetos funcionales, ignorando las caracteristicas pragmaticas y socioculturales de la lengua escrita. Sin embargo, en la actualidad, estan aprendiendo a leer y escribir fuera del sistema formal, por medio del correo electronico, el chat y el telefono celular. Este trabajo presenta evidencias sobre la apropiacion que esta realizando esta comunidad practicamente desescolarizada de un objeto tan complejo como es la lengua escrita y desde una practica discursiva no escolar como la escritura mediante correos electronicos. A partir de la gramatica textual, las autoras analizan y describen el funcionamiento del texto en el contexto de una situacion comunicativa determinada. El analisis incluye no solo el plano sintactico sino tambien la actividad discursiva (las actitudes del productor y del consumidor textual). Los resultados muestran que los sordos estan co...
Resumen es: En este trabajo hemos interpretado, desde la teoria de la enunciacion y el Analisis del Discurso, un texto escrito por un paciente psicotico. Recurrimos ...
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In the present work, we attempt to describe F0 movements and the amount of F0 change in the stressed syllables of Spanish sentences as a function of phonetic and linguistic effects. The material consisted of a list of 92 sentences with... more
In the present work, we attempt to describe F0 movements and the amount of F0 change in the stressed syllables of Spanish sentences as a function of phonetic and linguistic effects. The material consisted of a list of 92 sentences with different syntactic structures which were recorded twice by a male speaker. Wideband spectrograms and F0 contours of all the sentences were obtained. F0 movements on the syllabic nucleus of each accented syllable were chosen as the parameters for the analysis of F0 contours. Results showed that the accented syllabic nucleus presents the following F0 movements: rise, fall, level, and rise‐fall. These movements are correlated with effects such as the nature of the preceding consonant (level with voiceless, rise with voiced), position of the accented word (fall in the last accented word, rise in yes‐no questions), and boundary (rise‐fall or fall). Emphatic stress is correlated with increased F0 and larger F0 excursions. The amount of F0 change seems to follow a declination lin...
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In a previous work [A.M. B. de Manrique and M. I. Massone, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 69, 145 (1981)] a vowel effect on the phonetic identification of Spanish fricatives /f, s, ∫/ was observed. It was assumed that the effect might be due to the... more
In a previous work [A.M. B. de Manrique and M. I. Massone, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 69, 145 (1981)] a vowel effect on the phonetic identification of Spanish fricatives /f, s, ∫/ was observed. It was assumed that the effect might be due to the absence of transitions or to the absence of forward coarticulation influences in the friction portions of the syllables used as stimuli. The present experiment was undertaken to evaluate the latter hypothesis. The stimuli were formed by gating out the fricative portions of the natural syllables /fi, fa, fu, si, sa, su, ∫i, ∫a, ∫u/ and combining these portions in CV syllables with the steady‐state natural vowels /i, a, u/ by tape‐splicing technique. Six listeners were asked to identify the fricative. Results show that the vowel effect completely disappears. This suggests the perceptual relevance of the spectral variations in the fricative portion, due to vowel context, for the identification of the fricative.
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a subyacente de las operaciones flexivas que gobierna la forma final de superficie de las complejas señas morfológicas (Newkirk, 1980). Esta evidencia señala que las reglas formales, las regularidades subyacentes son similares en las... more
a subyacente de las operaciones flexivas que gobierna la forma final de superficie de las complejas señas morfológicas (Newkirk, 1980). Esta evidencia señala que las reglas formales, las regularidades subyacentes son similares en las lenguas habladas y en las de señas, pero la forma en que se manifiesta difiere. La morfología productiva de las lenguas de señas que combinan en una única palabra muchos morfemas (como en el caso de las raíces de incorporación numeral) convierte a estas lenguas en polisintéticas. Dado, entonces, el número de morfemas que pueden empaquetarse en una única seña es claramente inapropiado considerar a la seña como la unidad de análisis (Wilbur, 1987). Esto no significa que no se haga referencia a la seña como un todo, sino que considerar a las señas como todos insegmentables implica perder numerosas regularidades internas que tienen información morfológica significativa. La información gramatical que conlieva un solo predicado en las lenguas de señas, como e...
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Analisis de correos electronicos enviados entre sordos y entre sordos y oyentes, a fin de reconocer los procesos de apropiacion de la lengua escrita por parte de los sordos. En primer lugar, se muestran interferencias linguisticas entre... more
Analisis de correos electronicos enviados entre sordos y entre sordos y oyentes, a fin de reconocer los procesos de apropiacion de la lengua escrita por parte de los sordos. En primer lugar, se muestran interferencias linguisticas entre el espanol y la lengua de selas argentina-LSA-. Luego se analizan rasgos que revelan estrategias propias y transitorias, que los sordos van desarrollando durante la adquisicion de la escritura, y claves que usan para guiar el otro hacia la comprension. Finalmente se pone en evidencia como estos correos manifiestan una constante reflexion sobre el proceso mismo de escritura.
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Este texto que presento ha sido, en parte, la conferencia pronunciada en ocasion de recibir el increible honor que me concedio la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo y desde la Facultad de Educacion, que tan cercana y tan amigable ha sido todos... more
Este texto que presento ha sido, en parte, la conferencia pronunciada en ocasion de recibir el increible honor que me concedio la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo y desde la Facultad de Educacion, que tan cercana y tan amigable ha sido todos estos anos para mi, es decir, el Doctorado Honoris Causa .
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An examination of the semiotic aspects of a language involves asking questions such as: What is a text? What are the characteristics of an interview? What semiotic value does television have, especially when we analyze an interview with a... more
An examination of the semiotic aspects of a language involves asking questions such as: What is a text? What are the characteristics of an interview? What semiotic value does television have, especially when we analyze an interview with a Deaf signer? Although all of these questions deserve our attention, we explain each concept briefly in this chapter. 1 We intend to clarify some of the functions of these different aspects in order to understand their interrelationships in the corpus analyzed. First, it is important to explain that all the communicative interactions among Deaf people in Argentina are conversational. Sign languages have an oral tradition, that is to say, they are transmitted from generation to generation in face-to-face communication. Several types of linguistic contact situations exist among Deaf people or among Deaf and hearing people (Massone and Menendez 1997). Such interactions constitute oral exchanges as a series of events whose whole conforms to a text that ...
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The relationship between stress and F0 as manifested by the F0 curve in declarative and interrogative Spanish sentences is quantified. The material under study were the F0 curves of 20 declarative sentences and four yes‐no questions. The... more
The relationship between stress and F0 as manifested by the F0 curve in declarative and interrogative Spanish sentences is quantified. The material under study were the F0 curves of 20 declarative sentences and four yes‐no questions. The peaks and changes of F0 of stressed syllables were measured on the F0 curves and the duration of each segment on spectrograms. Three levels of stress were determined on several key content words. In declarative sentences the high level is manifested by the F0 maximum: 138.42 Hz, and by the greatest F0 change with respect to the preceding syllable: 30.42 Hz. The middle level presents the second F0 peak: 124.5 Hz and a smaller change: 26.5 Hz. The low level is marked by a greater vowel and consonant duration. The yes‐no questions show a greater F0 change and a higher overall frequency of the F0 curve with respect to statements. Therefore, the pattern of interrogative sentences cue distinguishes a question from a statement. Results suggest that stress is marked by different cues according to the level of stress of the content words and to its position within the F0 curve.
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... cumbia villera como otras manifestaciones por las que transitan los grupos sociales-tango, rock, cantos de la cancha, creencias religiosas9, lunfar-do tumbero (el lunfardo hablado en la tumba:cárcel)-nos aporta evidencia Page 17. 17... more
... cumbia villera como otras manifestaciones por las que transitan los grupos sociales-tango, rock, cantos de la cancha, creencias religiosas9, lunfar-do tumbero (el lunfardo hablado en la tumba:cárcel)-nos aporta evidencia Page 17. 17 María I. Massone, Virginia Buscaglia: La ...
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Argentine Sign Language or LSA is the primary means of interactive communication between the members of the deaf community. As every other sign language LSA lacks, up to the moment, a written register, all the communication being thus... more
Argentine Sign Language or LSA is the primary means of interactive communication between the members of the deaf community. As every other sign language LSA lacks, up to the moment, a written register, all the communication being thus conversational. An ...
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Four right-handed monolingual Spanish-speaking patients who developed a foreign accent syndrome (FAS) during the recovery period from a non-fluent aphasia or an aphemia are reported. The FAS resolved rapidly (within 2 months) in two... more
Four right-handed monolingual Spanish-speaking patients who developed a foreign accent syndrome (FAS) during the recovery period from a non-fluent aphasia or an aphemia are reported. The FAS resolved rapidly (within 2 months) in two patients, both with small stroke lesions in the posterior margin of the left middle frontal gyrus. In the other two patients, who had lesions involving the
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W the order of constituents in the sen-tenceis one way in which languages establish the relationship be-tween a verb and its arguments. The spoken languages of the world have been classified into three, major word-order types:... more
W the order of constituents in the sen-tenceis one way in which languages establish the relationship be-tween a verb and its arguments. The spoken languages of the world have been classified into three, major word-order types: SVO, VSO, and SOV. ...
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... es el contexto para las actividades de sub-sistencia: reproducción, protección y socialización ... posible interpretar que el bilingüismo no parece asumir, todavía, un modelo continuo u ... de procesamiento cognitivo y comunicativo de los niños sordos; su desarrollo socio-emocional ...