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The social stratification of /ʧ/
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Cole, Molly Díaz-Campos, Manuel Raynor, Eliot |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | This chapter investigates the sociolinguistic stratification and acoustic correlates of /ʧ/ lenition in Caracas Spanish. It follows recent work on Spanish variation, which uses direct, empirical measurements of speech data. The independent social variables considered included the following factors: time period (1980s vs. 2000s), speaker age, gender, and socioeconomic status. The linguistic factors examined included phonetic context, word position, stress, and lexical frequency. The findings of this study indicate that what is treated traditionally as /ʧ/ lenition appears to be a process of lengthening in the segment's frication duration favored by following high and mid vowels and in word-initial position. The innovative variants that were observed in this study can be conceptualized as lengthened fricatives, an outcome that may be explained by a process of partial co-articulation favored by vowel height and/or word-initial contexts. The evidence presented is a contribution for a new conceptualization of the phenomenon as an extension of the frication period. Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish |
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| DOI | 10.4324/9780429200267-11 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-09-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches To Spanish Stress Spanish Stratification Frication Vowels ʧ/lenition Conceptualized Social Word Initial |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
