Scott Sadowsky- Ph.D. in Linguistics
- Professor at University of Cartagena
Scott Sadowsky
- Ph.D. in Linguistics
- Professor at University of Cartagena
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March 2016 - January 2023
December 2016 - December 2020
August 2011 - February 2016
Education
January 2013 - May 2015
March 2008 - August 2012
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Phonetic and phonological description of the Mapudungun language, spoken by the Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina.
This paper explores the sociophonetic variation of the consonants of Chilean Spanish. It analyzes the socially-indexed allophones of /t̠͡ʃ/, /t̪͡ɾ/, /r/, /ɾ/, /ʝ/, /s/, /d̪/, /ʎ/, /f/, /l/ and /b/, and concludes that in the young generation, speakers of all social classes are adopting prestige allophones of /t̠͡ʃ/ on a massive scale; that a process...
ABSTRACT: This chapter presents a method for socioeconomically stratifying Chileans for the purposes of linguistic research. Known as EMIS, it utilizes two variables (educational level and occupational level) and their point of intersection on a specially designed matrix to categorize speakers as members of one of six socioeconomic levels (A, B, Ca...
The southernmost regions of South America harbor some of the earliest evidence of human presence in the Americas. However, connections with the rest of the continent and the contextualization of present-day indigenous ancestries remain poorly resolved. In this study, we analyze the genetic ancestry of one of the largest indigenous groups in South A...
This chapter explores sociophonetic research on the Spanish language. After a quantitative review of the field by country, it examines early sociophonetic research (1890s-1980s) with a focus on its origins, influences, and methods. It then examines Spanish-language sociophonetics as a whole in terms of its central research questions, key theories a...
This paper presents the Sociolinguistic Speech Corpus of Chilean Spanish (COSCACH) v1.0, a 9.3-million-word corpus containing transcribed, lemmatized and morphologically tagged text, audio recordings and videos from 1,237 L1 speakers of Chilean Spanish, as well as a control sample of 21 non-Chilean L1 Spanish speakers. The COSCACH is the first free...
Ya desde el siglo XIX, el castellano chileno generó interés en lingüistas como Lenz (1891), quien lo aclamó como un geolecto dinámico y en constante evolución. Más recientemente, un grupo importante de lingüistas contemporáneos ha indicado que existe una gran cantidad de diferencias entre el castellano de Chile y otras variedades en varios frentes...
This paper investigates the possible influence of Mapudungun, Chile’s most widely-spoken indigenous language, on Chilean Spanish, using a two-pronged approach. First, we reexamine German linguist Rudolf Lenz’s late nineteenth-century hypothesis that a series of phonetic and phonological features of Chilean Spanish originated in Mapudungun. We analy...
This chapter examines the Spanish spoken in Santiago, Chile, and some of the effects that globalization, social dynamics, migration, and ethnicity have had on it. We first contextualize Santiago’s place on the national and global stage and then detail the particularizing features of Chilean Spanish, with emphasis on the high degree of sociolinguist...
Sound Comparisons hosts over 90,000 individual word recordings and 50,000 narrow phonetic transcriptions from 600 language varieties from eleven language families around the world. This resource is designed to serve researchers in phonetics, phonology and related fields. Transcriptions follow new initiatives for standardisation in usage of the IPA...
![Figure 1: FFT and LPC spectral slices of UHF [s͎ ] in the word...](profile/Scott-Sadowsky/publication/334891889/figure/fig1/AS:787433016811520@1564750069244/FFT-and-LPC-spectral-slices-of-UHF-s-in-the-word-sentimiento_Q320.jpg)
![Figure 2: Prevalence of UHF [s͎ ] by gender (color; white=females,...](profile/Scott-Sadowsky/publication/334891889/figure/fig2/AS:787433016811521@1564750069270/Prevalence-of-UHF-s-by-gender-color-whitefemales-graymales-and-SES-x-axis_Q320.jpg)
![Prevalence of alveolar [s] and UHF [s͎ ] by gender and SES.](profile/Scott-Sadowsky/publication/334891889/figure/tbl1/AS:787433016791040@1564750069289/Prevalence-of-alveolar-s-and-UHF-s-by-gender-and-SES_Q320.jpg)
A typologically-anomalous whistled /s/ with a center of gravity (CoG) and/or spectral peak below 4.1 kHz has been described in a handful of languages. Additionally, in southern Chilean Spanish an ultra-high-frequency whistled /s/ (UHF [s͎ ]) with a CoG over 10 kHz was recently reported. This paper examines the effects of socioeconomic status (SES)...
Sound Comparisons hosts over 90,000 individual word recordings and 50,000 narrow phonetic transcriptions from 600 language varieties from eleven language families around the world. This resource is designed to serve researchers in phonetics, phonology and related fields. Transcriptions follow new initiatives for standardisation in usage of the IPA...
La falta de concordancia entre el clítico dativo le y el objeto indirecto (OI) plural, atestiguada tempranamente en español, sigue vigente. Las hipótesis que buscan explicarla apelan a la fonología, la economía morfosintáctica y la pragmática. Con el fin de comparar las realizaciones de le invariable y les concordante con OI en el español escrito d...
The non-concordant use of the Spanish dative clitic le with a plural indirect object (IO) appeared early in Spanish and continues to occur to the present day. Phonetic, morphosyntactic and pragmatic explanations have been proposed to account for this phenomenon. The present paper analyzes a corpus of 463 million words of written Chilean Spanish for...
The non-concordant use of the Spanish dative clitic le with a plural indirect object (IO) appeared early in Spanish and continues to occur to the present day. Phonetic, morphosyntactic and pragmatic explanations have been proposed to account for this phenomenon. The present paper analyzes a corpus of 463 million words of written Chilean Spanish for...
Los estudios existentes del sistema fonético-fonológico del mapudungun suelen enfocarse en localidades puntuales y utilizar metodologías y supuestos teóricos heterogéneos, lo cual dificulta la comparación de las distintas variedades de la lengua. Por otra parte, los pocos intentos de clasificación geolectal del mapudungun que se han realizado (prin...
La inconcordancia de número es ampliamente reconocida como rasgo típico del castellano hablado por personas bilingües en esta lengua y el mapudungun, atribuyéndose a una serie de factores que implican un manejo imperfecto de la lengua dominante por parte de estas personas: aprendizaje incompleto del castellano, escasa escolaridad, interferencia pro...
Based on a review of classic indices in lexical statistics (Laws of Estoup-Zipf-Mandelbrot), two linguistic indices are proposed in order to contribute new data in the description of specialized texts. A case is presented in which these indices are applied to a representative, multidisciplinary corpus of research articles in Spanish that is contras...
MaSCoT (<http://sadowsky.cl/praat.html>) is a tool developed to facilitate searching, extracting and analyzing information contained in large, richly-annotated speech corpora developed in Praat.
MaSCoT takes a TextGrid and a LongSound object as input, and allows users to perform sophisticated searches on these objects using regular expressions and...
Software (Windows) that makes it possible to type IPA symbols directly into any Unicode-compatible application
El presente artículo propone un conjunto de principios orientadores para la elaboración del inventario fonético segmental del castellano hablado actualmente en Chile. Se presenta un inventario fonético provisorio de las consonantes basado en los principios aquí explicitados, el cual tiene como punto de referencia el castellano hablado hoy en la pro...
The present article proposes a set of principles to guide the process of defining the segmental phonetic inventory of contemporary Chilean Spanish. It presents a provisional phonetic inventory of consonants based on the above-mentioned principles, using the Spanish spoken in the province of Concepcion (Chile) as its point of reference. In addition,...
El presente trabajo investiga un tipo de construccion poco estudiado en espanol: "el caso + noMinal", frecuente en el discurso periodistico chileno referido al ambito judicial (p. ej. el caso Pinochet). tras analizar un corpus de textos periodisticos chilenos, se concluye que la construccion descansa en el marco semantico del evento judicial y que...
Software (Multi-platform) that automatically syllabifies, determines stress accent and transcribes Spanish text in broad IPA notation. In addition, Perkins can perform analyses of consonant-vowel structure, voicing, place of articulation and manner of articualtion
Lemmatized and morphosyntactally-tagged electronic corpus of Chilean Spanish consisting of approximately 800 million running words of text in 1.3 million files.
The present investigation proposes that the nominalization index (the ratio of nouns to verbs in a given text) successfully predicts the academic-scientific character of a text. The results of a computer-assisted analysis of a 12.7 million word corpus show that this index is sensitive to the opposition between scientific/academic texts and letters...
Latest version available at <http://sadowsky.cl/lifcach.html>. Database containing frequency information on 844,905 lexical items in Chilean Spanish, derived from a corpus of approximately 400 million words.
