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Chapter 9. Phonological processes in flux
Abstract
In this study, we examine the production of the palatal lateral in Spanish, represented orthographically as <ll>, as produced by bilinguals in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The purpose of this study is first to observe what changes may have taken place in the acoustic production of palatal /ʎ/ by Quichua-Spanish speakers in comparison to related segments /l/ and /ʝ/ which may be due to indigenous language contact, and second to determine if extralinguistic influences may have contributed to this change (e.g., differences in gender). While males appear to maintain a distinct palatal lateral and females demonstrate a move towards delateralization, both genders demonstrate cases of depalatalization due to allophony, as in their native language.
Abstract
In this study, we examine the production of the palatal lateral in Spanish, represented orthographically as <ll>, as produced by bilinguals in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The purpose of this study is first to observe what changes may have taken place in the acoustic production of palatal /ʎ/ by Quichua-Spanish speakers in comparison to related segments /l/ and /ʝ/ which may be due to indigenous language contact, and second to determine if extralinguistic influences may have contributed to this change (e.g., differences in gender). While males appear to maintain a distinct palatal lateral and females demonstrate a move towards delateralization, both genders demonstrate cases of depalatalization due to allophony, as in their native language.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction. Spanish in the Amazon region 1
- Chapter 1. Language loss and language gain in Amazonia 7
- Chapter 2. Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact 35
- Chapter 3. Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America 57
- Chapter 4. Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop 81
- Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation 105
- Chapter 6. Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech 127
- Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon 155
- Chapter 8. Interrogative intonation in monolingual Amazonian Spanish 191
- Chapter 9. Phonological processes in flux 223
- Chapter 10. The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads 259
- Epilogue. Insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region 287
- Index 299
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction. Spanish in the Amazon region 1
- Chapter 1. Language loss and language gain in Amazonia 7
- Chapter 2. Bilingualism, second language acquisition, and language contact 35
- Chapter 3. Origins and dialectology studies of Spanish in America 57
- Chapter 4. Language documentation and revitalization as a feedback loop 81
- Chapter 5. Amazonian Spanish and the emergence and maintenance of ethnolinguistic variation 105
- Chapter 6. Clitics and argument marking in Shipibo-Spanish and Ashéninka-Perené-Spanish bilingual speech 127
- Chapter 7. Emerging ethnolinguistic varieties in the Amazon 155
- Chapter 8. Interrogative intonation in monolingual Amazonian Spanish 191
- Chapter 9. Phonological processes in flux 223
- Chapter 10. The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads 259
- Epilogue. Insights for contact linguistics and future investigations of Spanish in the Amazon region 287
- Index 299
