<b>A linguagem dos idosos da região sudeste do Brasil: o nível prosódico

Karoline Pimentel dos Santos; Ana Paula Santana

doi:10.4025/actascilangcult.v38i4.27687

<b>Language of the elderly in Southeastern Brazil: the prosodic level

Karoline Pimentel dos Santos Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Ana Paula Santana Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v38i4.27687

Keywords: aging, rate, linguistic variation

Abstract

This paper aimed to analyze the speech rate of 16 healthy elderly, aging 50 to 65, from the Southeast of Brazil. Data was collected from semi spontaneous discourse of ALIB database. The Transcriber program was used to analyze speech rate (min/word). The results showed there is a speed variation between subjects from different areas. Elderly from Belo Horizonte demonstrated higher speed in the Southeast, whereas elderly from Rio de Janeiro showed the lowest rate in the same region. It was concluded that the decrease in speech rate in the literature may not be a result of aging process and it might be related with sociocultural aspects.

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Author Biographies

Karoline Pimentel dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Graduação em Letras/Linguística pela USP. Mestranda em Linguística pela UFSC.

Ana Paula Santana, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutora em Linguística. Docente do Departamento de Fonoaudiologia e do Curso de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da UFSC.

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Published

2016-11-22

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Santos, K. P. dos, & Santana, A. P. (2016). <b>Language of the elderly in Southeastern Brazil: the prosodic level. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 38(4), 371-376. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v38i4.27687

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Vol 38 No 4 (2016)

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Linguistics

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