Chapter 2. Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives
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Justin Davidson
Abstract
Building off a series of matched guise studies focused on attitudes toward native-like (L1) and accented (L2) Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia, Spain (Woolard, 1984, 1989, 2009, 2011; Woolard & Gahng, 1990), this study explores covert and overt attitudes toward two specific phonetic features of Catalonian Spanish, namely lateral velarization and intervocalic /s/ voicing. Catalan-Spanish Barcelonan bilinguals and Madrid Spanish monolinguals (N = 54) completed a matched guise task eliciting covert judgments toward each phenomenon independently. Results from the matched guise, in combination with elicited overt attitudes from sociolinguistic interviews, demonstrate how broader linguistic attitudes and ideologies toward the Spanish language can be comprised from an aggregate set of individual speech variants and the distinct social values afforded to each of them.
Abstract
Building off a series of matched guise studies focused on attitudes toward native-like (L1) and accented (L2) Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia, Spain (Woolard, 1984, 1989, 2009, 2011; Woolard & Gahng, 1990), this study explores covert and overt attitudes toward two specific phonetic features of Catalonian Spanish, namely lateral velarization and intervocalic /s/ voicing. Catalan-Spanish Barcelonan bilinguals and Madrid Spanish monolinguals (N = 54) completed a matched guise task eliciting covert judgments toward each phenomenon independently. Results from the matched guise, in combination with elicited overt attitudes from sociolinguistic interviews, demonstrate how broader linguistic attitudes and ideologies toward the Spanish language can be comprised from an aggregate set of individual speech variants and the distinct social values afforded to each of them.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Spain
- Chapter 1. The role of social cues in the perception of final vowel contrasts in Asturian Spanish 15
- Chapter 2. Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives 39
- Chapter 3. Dialectology meets sociophonetics 85
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South America
- Chapter 4. Regional identity in Highland Ecuador 125
- Chapter 5. Spanish and Palenquero 153
- Chapter 6. The role of social networks in cross-dialectal variation in the perception of the Rioplatense assibilated pre-palatal [ʃ] 187
- Chapter 7. The social perception of intervocalic /k/ voicing in Chilean Spanish 211
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North America
- Chapter 8. The sociophonetic perception of heritage Spanish speakers in the United States 239
- Chapter 9. Spoken word recognition and shesheo in Northwestern Mexico 265
- Chapter 10. The perception-production connection 287
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Future Directions
- Chapter 11. Of intersectionality, replicability, and holistic perspectives 315
- Chapter 12. Future directions for sociophonetic research in Spanish 327
- Index 341
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Spain
- Chapter 1. The role of social cues in the perception of final vowel contrasts in Asturian Spanish 15
- Chapter 2. Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives 39
- Chapter 3. Dialectology meets sociophonetics 85
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South America
- Chapter 4. Regional identity in Highland Ecuador 125
- Chapter 5. Spanish and Palenquero 153
- Chapter 6. The role of social networks in cross-dialectal variation in the perception of the Rioplatense assibilated pre-palatal [ʃ] 187
- Chapter 7. The social perception of intervocalic /k/ voicing in Chilean Spanish 211
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North America
- Chapter 8. The sociophonetic perception of heritage Spanish speakers in the United States 239
- Chapter 9. Spoken word recognition and shesheo in Northwestern Mexico 265
- Chapter 10. The perception-production connection 287
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Future Directions
- Chapter 11. Of intersectionality, replicability, and holistic perspectives 315
- Chapter 12. Future directions for sociophonetic research in Spanish 327
- Index 341
