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Spanish mid vowels as sociolinguistic variables in Galicia.
- Source :
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Spanish in Context . 2020, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p464-487. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This paper analyzes the acoustic properties of Spanish stressed mid vowels from a corpus of over 2,800 tokens produced by Galician-dominant bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals. Following principles of bilingual speech production theory, we explore whether these vowels present lexically conditioned open variants [ɛ] and [ɔ] not present in monolingual Spanish. In combination with linguistic factors, we also examine whether bilingual mid-vowel production in our corpus is related to social variables. Assuming a linguistic repertoires perspective that links variation to identity performance, we argue that Spanish /e/ and /o/ are sociolinguistic variables in Galicia and that the distribution of their variants can be exploited to perform social meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SPANISH language
*VOWELS
*SOCIOLINGUISTICS
*CORPORA
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15710718
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Spanish in Context
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 148108921
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.18027.igl