Transcripción de la entonación de la variedad del andaluz de Álora según el sistema Sp_ToBI

In recent years, several studies about intonation have been developed based on the Autosegmental- Metrical framework established by Janet Pierrehumbert. The aim of this work is to describe the main intonational patterns in different sentence-types in the town of Álora (Málaga), a point located in a zone of confluence between the eastern and western Andalusian varieties. To this end, 224 sentences uttered by 7 local speakers were recorded using the Discourse Completion Task method. The contours were annotated using the Sp_ToBI transcription system. In addition to describing the intonation of the different sentence-types, this work compares the variety of Spanish spoken in Álora with the varieties of Central Peninsular Spanish, studied by Estebas-Vilaplana and Prieto, and with the variety spoken in Jerez, analyzed by Henriksen and García-Amaya. The results show that the variety of Álora is intonationally closer to the one of Jerez than to central peninsular Spanish, although it differs from the former in several sentence types (broad focus statements of more than one prosodic word, statements of the obvious, informationseeking wh- questions, insistent orders).En los últimos años se han ido desarrollando numerosos estudios sobre la entonación de las lenguas basados en el modelo métrico-autosegmental establecido por Janet Pierrehumbert. El objetivo de este trabajo es el de describir los principales contornos de F0 en diferentes tipos de enunciados de la localidad de Álora (Málaga), un punto situado en una zona de confluencia entre la variedad oriental y occidental andaluzas. Con ese fin, se han grabado mediante la técnica del Discourse Completion Task 224 oraciones producidas por 7 hablantes de esa localidad. Los contornos entonativos así obtenidos se han anotado mediante el sistema de transcripción Sp_ToBI. Además de describir la entonación de los diferentes tipos de enunciados, en este trabajo se realiza también una comparación con las variedades del espanol central peninsular, estudiado por Estebas-Vilaplana y Prieto, y del jerezano, analizado por Henriksen y García-Amaya. Los resultados indican que el habla de Álora se acerca entonativamente más al jerezano que al español peninsular central, aunque se diferencia del primero en varias modalidades oracionales (declarativas neutras de más de una unidad tonal, declarativas de obviedad, interrogativas parciales neutras, órdenes, vocativos insistentes)

DOES THE ROUTINE HISTOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY LYMP NODES HAVE A PROGNOSTIC VALUE IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH SIGMOID COLON AND RECTUM TUMORS?

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Does the routine histological examination of the inferior mesenteric artery Iymph nodes have a prognostic value in elderly patients with sigmoid colon and rectum tumors?

The purpose of our study was to estimate in elderly patients with a colorectal and sigmoid cancer the frequency of the histopathological exam and to analyze the prognostic/therapeutic value of central LN examination. In our experience the histological evaluation of the central LN has a precise prognostic value. Patients in which the histological evaluation of the central LN was performed had a better prognosis than patients in which the histological evaluation wasn\u2019t possible (tha actuarial survival rate at 5 years was 73,2% in patients in which the central LN status was determinated and 62,7% in thiose in which it wasn\u2019t (p=0.0066). The authors conclude that the histological evaluation of the central LN represents the quality standard of the lymphadenectomy and ensures a precise staging of the tumor which decreases the shifting between tumor stages. From an oncological point of view the therapeutic improvement achieved can be ascribed to metastatic LN dissection