Abstract
One of the more characteristic features of Spanish is the process of articulatory reduction, known as spirantization, which affects the voiced stops /b,d,g/ resulting in the voiced approximants [β̞, ð̞, ɣ̞]. While studies have shown variation with respect to the phonetic environments in which /b,d,g/ undergo spirantization, the general consensus has been that they are always realized as approximants between vowels in most varieties of Spanish. Likewise, several studies have found that spirantization relates to different social factors in different varieties of Spanish. However, these studies have been impressionistic and/or qualitative in their analyses of the voiced obstruents and have not examined the varying degrees to which intervocalic /b,d,g/ spirantize. The current study analyzes more than 4,500 tokens of intervocalic /b,d,g/ from the spontaneous speech of 31 speakers from the province of Concepción, Chile. Likewise, the present paper examines and compares the phonetic behavior of traditional intervocalic /b,d,g/ with that of /b,d,g/ in non-traditional intervocalic contexts created by /s/ elision. Results indicated that both linguistic and social factors had an influence on the degree to which speakers realized [β̞, ð̞, ɣ̞], and that while speakers still lenite and delete /b,d,g/ in non-traditional intervocalic environments created by /s/ elision, generally they do so at a much lower rate than when in traditional intervocalic contexts.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- A note from the Editor’s desk
- A polysemy account of alternating verbs of creation in Brazilian Portuguese
- Pronominal verbs in Spanish
- A phase-theoretic approach to cliticization in Romance
- The loss of the Old Spanish –udo participle as seen in the Alfonso X corpus
- A variationist account of voice onset time (VOT) among bilingual West Indians in Panama
- Subject-verb order variation with unaccusative verbs of change of location in Mexico and Southern Arizona
- Sobre las concordancias alternantes en español
- The influence of linguistic and social variables in the spirantization of intervocalic /b,d,g/ in Concepción, Chile
- Book Review
- Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán: The acquisition of Spanish in understudied language pairings
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- A note from the Editor’s desk
- A polysemy account of alternating verbs of creation in Brazilian Portuguese
- Pronominal verbs in Spanish
- A phase-theoretic approach to cliticization in Romance
- The loss of the Old Spanish –udo participle as seen in the Alfonso X corpus
- A variationist account of voice onset time (VOT) among bilingual West Indians in Panama
- Subject-verb order variation with unaccusative verbs of change of location in Mexico and Southern Arizona
- Sobre las concordancias alternantes en español
- The influence of linguistic and social variables in the spirantization of intervocalic /b,d,g/ in Concepción, Chile
- Book Review
- Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán: The acquisition of Spanish in understudied language pairings