The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals
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Christine Weissglass
Abstract
Rhotics in Spanish onset clusters are typically realized as taps or approximants (Blecua 2001, Weissglass 2011). Trills have also been reported in parts of Spain in which Basque is spoken (Hualde 2005). However, acoustic corroboration for such reports has been unavailable. This study analyzes acoustically the realization of rhotics in this context by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals. It also explores the role of place of articulation and voicing of the preceding consonant as well as the vowel following the rhotic on rhotic realization. Results show that bilinguals produced mostly taps with only a few trills, whereas monolinguals produced mostly approximants. Voicing of the preceding consonant influenced rhotic realization in both datasets, but place of articulation and the vowel following the rhotic did not. Theoretical implications of these results concern the organization of segments within the syllable, the distribution of rhotics in Spanish, and a continuum of continuancy for rhotic variants.
Abstract
Rhotics in Spanish onset clusters are typically realized as taps or approximants (Blecua 2001, Weissglass 2011). Trills have also been reported in parts of Spain in which Basque is spoken (Hualde 2005). However, acoustic corroboration for such reports has been unavailable. This study analyzes acoustically the realization of rhotics in this context by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals. It also explores the role of place of articulation and voicing of the preceding consonant as well as the vowel following the rhotic on rhotic realization. Results show that bilinguals produced mostly taps with only a few trills, whereas monolinguals produced mostly approximants. Voicing of the preceding consonant influenced rhotic realization in both datasets, but place of articulation and the vowel following the rhotic did not. Theoretical implications of these results concern the organization of segments within the syllable, the distribution of rhotics in Spanish, and a continuum of continuancy for rhotic variants.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments vii
- Editors’ introduction ix
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Part I First and second language acquisition
- Devil or angel in the details? 3
- Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals 33
- Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy 55
- Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations 71
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Part II Prosody
- A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French 93
- Sentence modality and tempo in Neapolitan Italian 109
- Glottalization at phrase boundaries in Tuscan and Roman Italian 125
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Part III Segments
- Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish 151
- The phonetic basis of a phonological pattern 171
- The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals 193
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Part IV Methodology
- Secondary correlates of question signaling in Manchego Spanish 211
- Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups 239
- Categories and gradience in intonation 259
- Subject Index 285
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments vii
- Editors’ introduction ix
-
Part I First and second language acquisition
- Devil or angel in the details? 3
- Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals 33
- Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy 55
- Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations 71
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Part II Prosody
- A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French 93
- Sentence modality and tempo in Neapolitan Italian 109
- Glottalization at phrase boundaries in Tuscan and Roman Italian 125
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Part III Segments
- Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish 151
- The phonetic basis of a phonological pattern 171
- The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals 193
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Part IV Methodology
- Secondary correlates of question signaling in Manchego Spanish 211
- Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups 239
- Categories and gradience in intonation 259
- Subject Index 285
