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The goals of this study are to compare and contrast the intonation patterns of Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS) and to determine the degree of variation between speakers according to the sociolinguistic variables of age and gender. This study deals with the prosodic patterns of three basic sentence types — declarative, wh-questions and exclamatory — of BAS as spoken by men, women and children of different age groups. The classic norms of Spanish prosody — established by Navarro Tomas (1944/1974) — were later supported experimentally for Ibero-Spanish and various Latin American dialects (Quilis 1993, Sosa 1999, Beckman et al. 2002) including for BAS in particular (Toledo 2000, Colantoni & Gurlekian 2002, 2004, Enbe 2003, Barjam 2004) but these studies did not consider the sociolinguistic parameters of age and gender as variables of prosodic variation. To the best of our knowledge, the first time these variables were analyzed for BAS was in Enbe et al. (2006). The data were elicited by a re...

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