On the status of the phoneme /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish
This study examined intervocalic productions of /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish residing in the United States. Eleven speakers were divided into two groups based on at-home exposure to Spanish, and subsequently completed reading and picture description tasks eliciting productions of intervocalic...
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| description | This study examined intervocalic productions of /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish residing in the United States. Eleven speakers were divided into two groups based on at-home exposure to Spanish, and subsequently completed reading and picture description tasks eliciting productions of intervocalic /b/ showing variation in word position, syllable stress, and orthography. The mixed-effects results revealed that while both groups manifested three clear phonetic categories, the group with more at-home experience followed a phonological rule of spirantization to a pure approximant to a higher degree across the data. The less-target-like stop and tense approximant allophones appeared more in the reading task, in stressed syllables, and in the less experienced group. Word boundary position interacted with group and task to induce less-target-like forms as well. The findings emphasize the influence of language background, linguistic context, orthography, and cognitive demands of tasks in accounting for heritage phonetics and phonology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3c99370c678e43358c25963d6030bebe2022-12-21T23:14:23ZcatUniversitat de LLeidaSintagma0214-91412014-12-01263754On the status of the phoneme /b/ in heritage speakers of SpanishRajiv Rao0University of Wisconsin-MadisonThis study examined intervocalic productions of /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish residing in the United States. Eleven speakers were divided into two groups based on at-home exposure to Spanish, and subsequently completed reading and picture description tasks eliciting productions of intervocalic /b/ showing variation in word position, syllable stress, and orthography. The mixed-effects results revealed that while both groups manifested three clear phonetic categories, the group with more at-home experience followed a phonological rule of spirantization to a pure approximant to a higher degree across the data. The less-target-like stop and tense approximant allophones appeared more in the reading task, in stressed syllables, and in the less experienced group. Word boundary position interacted with group and task to induce less-target-like forms as well. The findings emphasize the influence of language background, linguistic context, orthography, and cognitive demands of tasks in accounting for heritage phonetics and phonology.http://www.sintagma.udl.cat/export/sites/Sintagma/documents/articles_26/rao.pdfheritage speakersspirantizationSpanishphoneticsphonology |
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| title | On the status of the phoneme /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish |
| title_full | On the status of the phoneme /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish |
| title_fullStr | On the status of the phoneme /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the status of the phoneme /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish |
| title_short | On the status of the phoneme /b/ in heritage speakers of Spanish |
| title_sort | on the status of the phoneme b in heritage speakers of spanish |
| topic | heritage speakers spirantization Spanish phonetics phonology |
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