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Short-term accommodation as a function of addressee language proficiency.
- Source :
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Spanish in Context . 2019, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p173-193. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper examines patterns of phonetic accommodation as a function of addressee target language proficiency. Specifically, it analyzes short-term adjustments in the articulation of coda consonants /s/, /ɾ/, and /n/ in the speech of eight New York Dominican Spanish speakers during a series of conversations with different addressees – a native speaker and three nonnative Spanish speakers who have varying levels of Spanish proficiency. Results demonstrate that addressee native-speaker status and proficiency play a statistically significant role in both the degree and direction of phonetic accommodation exhibited by the native speaker informants. While the informants converge with both the most- and least-proficient addressees, they initially diverge from the mid-proficient addressee. The study finds that the native speaker informants use overtly-prestigious variants to attune to the academic Spanish of the most-proficient addressees and use covertly-prestigious, emblematic variants with both the mid-proficient and native speaker addressees to demonstrate outgroup and ingroup membership, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *LANGUAGE ability
*ARTICULATION (Speech)
*SPANISH language
*PHONETICS
*CONSONANTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15710718
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Spanish in Context
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 138371395
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00033.cor