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1 Strictness bands of NO CO D A and MA X following Hayes' (2000) model (from Cutillas Espinosa 2004)
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Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics - edited by Kimberly L. Geeslin
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... The standard analysis of the syllabic affiliation of onset consonant clusters is not generally regarded as a controversial topic in Spanish phonology (Colina 2009(Colina , 2012Harris 1983;Hualde 1991Hualde , 2005Morales-Front 2018;Real Academia Española 2011;Saporta and Contreras 1962). Under this standard view, Spanish onset clusters (either word-initially or word-medially) may have at most two consonants and their structure is very constrained. ...
There is now a large literature probing syllable affiliation of consonant sequences through phonetic measurements. These studies often use one of two diagnostic measures: (1) temporally stable intervals using relative standard deviation, and (2) compensatory shortening effects. In this study, we argue that both measures are difficult to infer from without precise theoretically predicted expectations and additional controls. We studied eleven native speakers of North-Central Peninsular Spanish who pronounced disyllabic real/nonce Spanish words with varying consonant sequences. On the face of it, our temporal stability and compensatory shortening results challenge the standard analysis of syllabic affiliation in Spanish phonology, potentially supporting a complex onset analysis for /sl/ and /sm/. However, in post hoc analyses we observed shortening effects outside the target syllable due to consonant sequences, indicating evidence for poly-constituent shortening. Therefore, compensatory shortening effects within a syllable cannot automatically be assumed to be due to syllable structure. Our results and simulations suggest that, despite superficial evidence of a c-centre alignment, the clusters are more consistent with a right-edge alignment once poly-constituent shortening and domain-initial lengthening are taken into consideration.
We examine variable first-person singular subject pronoun expression in Spanish learner data to investigate the effects of study abroad in Mexico and Spain on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation. In addition to exploring pre- and post-study abroad effects, this work considers whether such impacts wane over time after the study abroad experience. We include in the analyses novel usage-based factors estimating lexically specific usage patterns. We conduct a mixed-effects linear regression model predicting overt yo (‘I’) expression. Results indicate that overt yo expression is more likely after studying abroad (compared to pre-study abroad). Additionally, learners acquire a usage-based pattern of variation evident after the study abroad experience. This effect is not just apparent immediately after studying abroad, but it persists in data collected after a time delay.
Previous studies have found that second language learners can acquire sociolinguistic variation. However, there is a lack of studies that examine the L2 acquisition of second-person singular forms of address (2PS) in Spanish, especially in the immersion context of study abroad. The current study examines the acquisition of Spanish 2PS by seven adults learning Spanish in Medellin, Colombia. Participants completed an oral discourse completion task and a matched guise task to measure language perceptions toward each 2PS. Learners’ results are compared to findings from 38 native Spanish speakers from Medellin. Learners produced very few instances of the local variant vos and overproduced tú, differing greatly from native speakers. Two factors were found to significantly condition 2PS usage for learners: speaker gender and interlocutor relationship. Findings show that although learners perceive vos to a somewhat native-like extent and the role that it plays in the local variety, learners do not actually use it.
This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Given that this volume is inspired by papers from the 25th iteration of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, the editors track the development of the field in the last quarter century and have organized the volume into three sections (linguistic structure and variation, US Spanish and heritage speakers, applied linguistics) reflecting current research trends. This edited volume will be a welcome resource for advanced undergraduate students, incoming and advanced graduate students, and researchers in the field, as well as Spanish language educators at all levels.
For more than a decade, linguistics has moved increasingly away from evaluating language as an autonomous phenomenon, towards analysing it 'in use', and showing how its function within its social and interactional context plays an important role in shaping in its form. Bringing together state-of-the-art research from some of the most influential scholars in linguistics today, this Handbook presents an extensive picture of the study of language as it used 'in context' across a number of key linguistic subfields and frameworks. Organised into five thematic parts, the volume covers a range of theoretical perspectives, with each chapter surveying the latest work from areas as diverse as syntax, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, conversational analysis, multimodality, and computer-mediated communication. Comprehensive, yet wide-ranging, the Handbook presents a full description of how the theory of context has revolutionised linguistics, and how its renewed study is crucial in an ever-changing world.
In this study we show that the perception of lateral variants by Puerto Rican listeners changes according to who the listener believes is speaking. Puerto Rican listeners heard sentences with target words featuring either rhotic [ɾ] or lateral [l] (amo[ɾ] – amo[l]) codas, a sociophonetic alternation that is common in Puerto Rican Spanish. Across four conditions characterized by the presence or absence of social cues, listeners judged speakers on five Likert items: honesty, intelligence, SES, work ethic, and pleasantness. Condition 1 included only the sociophonetic variant while conditions 2, 3 and 4 included information about speaker nationality (flag, either Puerto Rican or Dominican), or racial phenotype (pictures of people) or both nationality and racial phenotype. The results revealed that for the sociophonetic variant only condition (no additional speaker information), listeners rated the lateral variant more negatively. However, for the three conditions where speaker information was provided, ratings were significantly affected by listeners’ perception of racial phenotype and nationality, with almost no interaction with phonetic variant. These results suggest that what was a significant effect for sociophonetic variant (condition 1) was overshadowed by perceptions of speaker racial phenotype and nationality. In other words, racialized speaking matters.
Performative style is an important sociolinguistic variable among politicians, who accomplish agentive goals through speech. Examining 32 Spanish politicians, this article focuses on four Andalusian Spanish phenomena: the fronting of /t͡ʃ/ and the deletion of coda /s/, resyllabified intervocalic onset /s/, and intervocalic /d/. The analysis first looks at overall community production norms for the variants then turns to examine the style-shifting patterns of one individual who deviates from these norms. This individual is examined through a consideration of lectal focusing in interaction to track moment-by-moment variation. While coda /s/ and intervocalic /d/ deletion show usage patterns governed by regional and contextual factors, the deletion of onset /s/ and fronted /t͡ʃ/ reflect social variation and style-shifting. While politicians do not blindly follow partisan norms, normative expectations exist at the regional level that they can choose to depart from due to individual motivations and political affiliation in order to carry out identity work. This study combines quantitative examinations of community and individual variation to contribute to our understanding of style-shifting behavior in political speech and how politicians use linguistic tools to take on oppositional identities in the public sphere.
Es bien conocida la dificultad que supone el aprendizaje de la morfología temporoaspectual en español como L2, hecho que ha llevado tanto a investigadores en adquisición de segundas lenguas (ASL) como a expertos en didáctica de lenguas extranjeras a trabajar en este asunto durante las últimas décadas, todos ellos guiados por los avances de las diferentes corrientes de la lingüística teórica. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar el estado de la cuestión de la relación entre la investigación en ASL y la didáctica del español en materia de morfología temporoaspectual. Para ello se hará primero una breve revisión de tiempo y aspecto, después, se hará una revisión de los hallazgos hechos por la investigación de la adquisición de los pasados perfectivos e imperfectivos en español como L2 desde la propuesta de la Hipótesis del Aspecto Léxico (Andersen 1991; Andersen y Shirai 1994, 1996; Bardovi-Harlig y Comajoan-Colomé 2020; Salaberry 2021) hasta la actualidad, y tercero una revisión de los recientes análisis de la vinculación de dichos hallazgos con la práctica docente en el aula de español como L2 (Bardovi-Harlig y Comajoan-Colomé 2022; Comajoan-Colomé 2022). A pesar de la evidente conexión que vincula la investigación en ASL con la innovación didáctica en materia de aprendizaje de la morfología temporoaspectual, recientes revisiones de la influencia de la primera sobre la segunda muestran que todavía queda mucho camino por recorrer, y puentes por tender entre estas dos subdisciplinas de la lingüística aplicada (Bardovi-Harlig y Comajoan-Colomé 2022; Comajoan-Colomé 2022). Nuestro propósito último es poner de manifiesto la necesidad de reforzar la cooperación entre estas dos subdisciplinas de la lingüística aplicada para mejorar la experiencia del profesorado y el alumnado en las aulas.
Studies on stylistic change in music argue that when singers use stylistic devices in their songs, they have one purpose: to represent their image and their artistic and social identity. In this paper we focus on the singer Rosalía, a Catalan artist who sings flamenco and Latin music. These two musical genres are associated with innovative varieties of Spanish, but this singer is not a speaker of this variety (she uses the Spanish spoken in Catalonia, a conservative variety). So, we want to know whether, when she sings, she linguistically adapts to the associated phenomena of flamenco and Latin music. In order to carry out this work, we have collected two oral corpora: the first is Rosalía’s discography and the second is 40 min of interviews in Spain and America. In our analyses we have verified that, indeed, when Rosalía sings, she uses indexicalized phenomena of the genres. However, in the interviews she keeps her vernacular variety, Catalan, although we have observed signs of accommodation to American Spanish, which also reveal a significant change in the singer’s idiolect.
