Wendy Elvira-García

Wendy Elvira-García

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0001-7002-9851
Scopus Author ID: 56705565900
Researcher ID: E-1633-2016
Knowledge area: Lingüística General

Academic coordinator of the Cognitive Science and Language MA program
Associate editor Estudios de Fonética Experimental

Research group: CLiC - Centre de Llenguatge i Computació

My Profile

Serra Húnter fellow. Phonetician. Her lines of research span on everything that has to do with the sounds of speech: from the prosody of Romance languages, to clinical phonetics, passing through ... + info

Academic training

PhD in Cognitive Science and Language . Universitat de Barcelona . 16/09/2016 . (Ph.D.)
MA in Lexis and Communication . Universitat de Barcelona . 01/07/2012 . (Official Master)
Licenciada en Filología Hispánica . Universitat de Barcelona . 01/07/2011 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Teaching imparted

Fonologia de Laboratori (Bachelor's degree) - Lingüística - Universidad de Barcelona.
Processament del Llenguatge Natural (University Master's Degree) - Cognitive Science and Languaje - Universidad de Barcelona.
Introducció a la Lingüística (Bachelor's degree) - Lingüística - Universidad de Barcelona.

Lines of Activity (Teaching and Research)

Phonetics and Phonology
Speech technologies
Prosody and intonation

Relevant publications

Elvira-García, Wendy; Marrero Aguiar, Victoria (2021). El ritmo y la tasa de habla como ayuda diagnóstica en síndromes neurodegenerativos de los lóbulos fronto-temporales. Loquens, 7(1), p. e068 . https://doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2020.068 . ISSN: 2386-2637
W. Elvira-García; S. Balocco; P. Roseano; A.M. Fernández Planas (2018). ProDis: A dialectometric tool for acoustic prosodic data. Speech Communication, 97, pp. 9 - 18 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2017.12.013 . ISSN: 0167-6393
Wendy Elvira-García; Paolo Roseano; Ana Ma. Fernández-Planas (2017). Prosody as a cue for syntactic dependency. Evidence from dependent and independent clauses with subordination marks in Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics, 109, pp. 29 - 46 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0378-2166
Benítez-Burraco, Antonio; Elvira-García, Wendy (2023). Human self‐domestication and the evolution of prosody. Language and Linguistics Compass, 17(3), p. e12485 . ISSN: 1749-818X
Elvira-García, W.; Farrús, M.; Almiñana, J.M.G. (2023). Comparison of intensity-based methods for automatic speech rate computation Comparación de dos métodos basados en la intensidad para el cálculo automático de la velocidad de habla. Loquens, 9(1-2) . ISSN: 2386-2637

Conferences and Participations in Congresses

Elvira-García, Wendy (2022). Women use sustained pitch more than men in Spanish. (Presentation of communication) . 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE|11) . Viena . AUSTRIA
Benítez-Burraco, A. & Elvira-García, W. (2022). Human self-domestication and the evolution of prosody. (Poster) . Speech Prosody . Lisbon . PORTUGAL
Elvira-García, Wendy; Marrero Aguiar, Victoria (2021). Syllable repetition speech rate and rhythm as a tool to distinguish types of neurodegenerative aphasias. (Presentation of communication) . Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) . Barcelona . SPAIN
Subirats Rüggeberg, Carlos; Cruz Piñol, Mar; Bürki, Yvette; Calero Vaquera, María Luisa; Garrido Iñigo, Paloma; Cruz Aldrete, Miroslava; Vela Delfa, Cristina; Raab, Matthias; Elvira-García, Wendy (2021). 'INFOLING. El impacto científico de la difusión global de información lingüística: balance de los últimos 25 años'. (Invited conference) . II Jornadas de Lingüística y Gramática Española: Inclusión, claridad, precisión, visibilización y otros temas en debate para la lingüística actual . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JNOxiIWxyc . Buenos Aires . ARGENTINA
Sansiñena Pascual, S.; Elvira-García, Wendy (2018). Using intonation to delimit grammatical constructions: the case of Chilean "que + indicative'. (Presentation of communication) . 10th International Conference on Construction Grammar . Paris . FRANCE

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