Larrabetzuko testuen prosodiaz

Abstract

In this paper the prosodic groups, pause types, ending tones, and speech speed in texts from Larrabetzu are studied taking into account the influence of age and gender. In order to carry out the research, twelve participants took part, six of which were middle-aged people and the other six were young people. All of them were required to explain a comic in such a way that the pseudo-free technique of guided texts could be applied. The collected corpus was transcribed and labeled using Praat program, and for the implementation of the quantitative study, that is, to specify whether there were significant potential differences among informants, the nonparametric MannWhitney U test was run through SPSS package. Finally, we obtained the following results: considering age, there are differences in the length of the prosodic groups and pause types. On the other hand, considering the ending tone and the speech speed, the differences are small regarding the studied variables.