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Chapter 5. The emergence of sound change in two varieties of Spanish

A usage-based analysis of variable trill /r/ production in Caracas, Venezuela, and Caguas, Puerto Rico
  • Matthew Pollock , Gibran Delgado-Díaz , Iraida Galarza , Manuel Díaz-Campos und Erik W. Willis
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Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics
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Abstract

We examine social and linguistic factors, including lexical frequency, that influence variable production of the alveolar rhotic trill in Caracas, Venezuela, and the region surrounding Caguas, Puerto Rico. Two categories of rhotic productions are established: non-innovative trills with two or more occlusions and innovative reduced ones with fewer than two occlusions and possible frication. Phonetic context, rhotic duration, and lexical frequency conditioned trill production in both varieties; mixed-effect logistic regressions showed that shorter duration and high frequency tokens predicted use of innovative variants in both varieties, while low vowels also did so in Caracas. This suggests that Caracas and Caguas are experiencing variation reflective of the early stages of a linguistic change, with linguistic factors conditioning reduced variants.

Abstract

We examine social and linguistic factors, including lexical frequency, that influence variable production of the alveolar rhotic trill in Caracas, Venezuela, and the region surrounding Caguas, Puerto Rico. Two categories of rhotic productions are established: non-innovative trills with two or more occlusions and innovative reduced ones with fewer than two occlusions and possible frication. Phonetic context, rhotic duration, and lexical frequency conditioned trill production in both varieties; mixed-effect logistic regressions showed that shorter duration and high frequency tokens predicted use of innovative variants in both varieties, while low vowels also did so in Caracas. This suggests that Caracas and Caguas are experiencing variation reflective of the early stages of a linguistic change, with linguistic factors conditioning reduced variants.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part 1. Regional variation
  6. Chapter 1. Discontinuous Plurality in Chilean Spanish 14
  7. Chapter 2. Person restrictions in non-canonical agreement patterns in Spanish 34
  8. Chapter 3. Exploring future-in-the-past variation in Seville and Caracas 58
  9. Part 2. Diachronic variation
  10. Chapter 4. Derived verbs and future-conditional stem regularization in written Spanish in synchrony and diachrony 82
  11. Chapter 5. The emergence of sound change in two varieties of Spanish 106
  12. Chapter 6. Real and apparent (time) changes in Yucatan Spanish 130
  13. Part 3. Learner profile variation
  14. Chapter 7. Civics, ideology, and Spanish in Kansas 154
  15. Chapter 8. Promoting Spanish L2 pragmatic competence in a virtual environment 173
  16. Chapter 9. Individual differences do not affect trill variation by advanced learners of Spanish 196
  17. Chapter 10. L2 sociolinguistic perception of stylistic variation 225
  18. Index 249
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.38.05pol

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part 1. Regional variation
  6. Chapter 1. Discontinuous Plurality in Chilean Spanish 14
  7. Chapter 2. Person restrictions in non-canonical agreement patterns in Spanish 34
  8. Chapter 3. Exploring future-in-the-past variation in Seville and Caracas 58
  9. Part 2. Diachronic variation
  10. Chapter 4. Derived verbs and future-conditional stem regularization in written Spanish in synchrony and diachrony 82
  11. Chapter 5. The emergence of sound change in two varieties of Spanish 106
  12. Chapter 6. Real and apparent (time) changes in Yucatan Spanish 130
  13. Part 3. Learner profile variation
  14. Chapter 7. Civics, ideology, and Spanish in Kansas 154
  15. Chapter 8. Promoting Spanish L2 pragmatic competence in a virtual environment 173
  16. Chapter 9. Individual differences do not affect trill variation by advanced learners of Spanish 196
  17. Chapter 10. L2 sociolinguistic perception of stylistic variation 225
  18. Index 249
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