La expresividad en los informativos radiofónicos

La expresividad es una cualidad ligada a la eficacia comunicativa que podemos cultivar en la radio construyendo mensajes más atractivos para los oyentes. Por eso, este trabajo tiene como objetivo determinar el grado de expresividad en los informativos de las cadenas nacionales españolas considerando variables como la correcta utilización y combinación de los elementos del lenguaje radiofónico y la elección de los géneros informativos. La principal conclusión del estudio es que en los programas de noticias no se emplean todos los recursos de expresividad que brinda el medio radiofónico para conquistar la atención de la audiencia

El sentido y la belleza

La entonación, entendida como las variaciones tonales del mensaje oral, se confirma como uno de los elementos de la locución más importantes para asegurar el establecimiento de una comunicación efectiva con el oyente. No sólo colabora en la comprensión y asimilación del contenido y del sentido del discurso radiofónico sino que de ella depende el mantenimiento de la atención de la audiencia. Por eso, el artículo, apoyándose en la reflexión teórica y en una prueba experimental, presenta una descripción de las propiedades y características que debe reunir una correcta y agradable entonación para lograr esos objetivos

El sentido y la belleza

La entonación, entendida como las variaciones tonales del mensaje oral, se confirma como uno de los elementos de la locución más importantes para asegurar el establecimiento de una comunicación efectiva con el oyente. No sólo colabora en la comprensión y asimilación del contenido y del sentido del discurso radiofónico sino que de ella depende el mantenimiento de la atención de la audiencia. Por eso, el artículo, apoyándose en la reflexión teórica y en una prueba experimental, presenta una descripción de las propiedades y características que debe reunir una correcta y agradable entonación para lograr esos objetivos

The spark orientation effect for improving attention and recall

Although some sound elements such as music or sound effects are commonly used in audiovisual messages, little research has been conducted to determine whether they guarantee better cognitive processing. The purpose of this study is to improve listeners’ cognitive processing by determining the effectiveness of several sound elements in an audio message. We analyzed the capacity and the position in radio commercials of three orienting elements—appeals to the listener, music, and sound effects—to determine if and how they enhanced the listener’s attention and recall. The findings indicated that the use of orienting elements significantly increased the level of attention and recall of the listeners, especially in the case of sound effects. Regarding the position of the orienting elements, the study showed they were used effectively when focused on the whole structure of the message, applying the so-called spark orientation effect

Glissando: a corpus for multidisciplinary prosodic studies in Spanish and Catalan

Literature review on prosody reveals the lack of corpora for prosodic studies in Catalan and Spanish. In this paper, we present a corpus intended to fill this gap. The corpus comprises two distinct data-sets, a news subcorpus and a dialogue subcorpus, the latter containing either conversational or task-oriented speech. More than 25 h were recorded by twenty eight speakers per language. Among these speakers, eight were professional (four radio news broadcasters and four advertising actors). The entire material presented here has been transcribed, aligned with the acoustic signal and prosodically annotated. Two major objectives have guided the design of this project: (i) to offer a wide coverage of representative real-life communicative situations which allow for the characterization of prosody in these two languages; and (ii) to conduct research studies which enable us to contrast the speakers different speaking styles and discursive practices. All material contained in the corpus is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Mutations in SNORD118 cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts

Although ribosomes are ubiquitous and essential for life, recent data indicate that monogenic causes of ribosomal dysfunction can confer a remarkable degree of specificity in terms of human disease phenotype. Box C/D small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved non-protein-coding RNAs involved in ribosome biogenesis. Here we show that biallelic mutations in the gene SNORD118, encoding the box C/D snoRNA U8, cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts (LCC), presenting at any age from early childhood to late adulthood. These mutations affect U8 expression, processing and protein binding and thus implicate U8 as essential in cerebral vascular homeostasis.status: publishe

Corrigendum: Mutations in SNORD118 cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts

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Mutations in SNORD118 cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts.

Although ribosomes are ubiquitous and essential for life, recent data indicate that monogenic causes of ribosomal dysfunction can confer a remarkable degree of specificity in terms of human disease phenotype. Box C/D small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved non-protein-coding RNAs involved in ribosome biogenesis. Here we show that biallelic mutations in the gene SNORD118, encoding the box C/D snoRNA U8, cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts (LCC), presenting at any age from early childhood to late adulthood. These mutations affect U8 expression, processing and protein binding and thus implicate U8 as essential in cerebral vascular homeostasis