Chapter 5. Social perception of the variable realization of /tʃ/ in Chile
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Amanda Boomershine
Abstract
This study uses the matched-guise technique to measure the attitudes of forty-one Chilean participants towards the variable realization of the affricate /tʃ/. The present study analyzes three variants of the phoneme and their relationships with various characteristics within society. Within the present study, there is social stratification of the phoneme /tʃ/ in which the variant [ʃ] is associated with a lower social stratum and the variants [tʃ] and [ts] are associated with a higher social stratum. Speakers who employ [ʃ] receive statistically lower ratings for all of the characteristics, while speakers who employ [tʃ] and [ts] receive statistically higher ratings in the matched-guise study.
Abstract
This study uses the matched-guise technique to measure the attitudes of forty-one Chilean participants towards the variable realization of the affricate /tʃ/. The present study analyzes three variants of the phoneme and their relationships with various characteristics within society. Within the present study, there is social stratification of the phoneme /tʃ/ in which the variant [ʃ] is associated with a lower social stratum and the variants [tʃ] and [ts] are associated with a higher social stratum. Speakers who employ [ʃ] receive statistically lower ratings for all of the characteristics, while speakers who employ [tʃ] and [ts] receive statistically higher ratings in the matched-guise study.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Contemporary research on Latin American Spanish dialectology 1
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Section I. Aspects of morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation
- Chapter 1. Between vos and usted 11
- Chapter 2. “Feel really Uruguayan” 29
- Chapter 3. Variable constraints on se lo(s) in Mexican Spanish 47
- Chapter 4. Variation and pragmatic enrichment 69
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Section II. Production, perception and sound system contact-driven restructuring
- Chapter 5. Social perception of the variable realization of /tʃ/ in Chile 97
- Chapter 6. Complex attitudes towards two sociolinguistic variables and their social meanings 125
- Chapter 7. Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties 155
- Chapter 8. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’ 181
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Section III. Language ideologies, business and pedagogical implications
- Chapter 9. Español neutro and marketing in Latin American and U.S. audiovisual media 207
- Chapter 10. Language policy and education in Peru 227
- Chapter 11. Twenty years of Guaraní-Spanish bilingual education in Paraguay 241
- Chapter 12. Bad grammar 275
- Index 289
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction. Contemporary research on Latin American Spanish dialectology 1
-
Section I. Aspects of morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation
- Chapter 1. Between vos and usted 11
- Chapter 2. “Feel really Uruguayan” 29
- Chapter 3. Variable constraints on se lo(s) in Mexican Spanish 47
- Chapter 4. Variation and pragmatic enrichment 69
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Section II. Production, perception and sound system contact-driven restructuring
- Chapter 5. Social perception of the variable realization of /tʃ/ in Chile 97
- Chapter 6. Complex attitudes towards two sociolinguistic variables and their social meanings 125
- Chapter 7. Declarative intonation in four Afro-Hispanic varieties 155
- Chapter 8. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’ 181
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Section III. Language ideologies, business and pedagogical implications
- Chapter 9. Español neutro and marketing in Latin American and U.S. audiovisual media 207
- Chapter 10. Language policy and education in Peru 227
- Chapter 11. Twenty years of Guaraní-Spanish bilingual education in Paraguay 241
- Chapter 12. Bad grammar 275
- Index 289
