"This book provides a cutting-edge exploration of the social meaning of phonetic variation in the Spanish-speaking world. Its 11 chapters elucidate the ways in which listeners process, perceive, and propagate phonetically motivated social meaning across monolingual and contact varieties, including the Spanish spoken in Spain (Asturias, Catalonia, and Andalusia), Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and the United States. The book presents a wide variety of new and innovative research by renowned scholars, and the chapters examine issues like the influence of visual cues, bilingualism, contact, geographic mobility, and phonotactic predictability on social and linguistic perception. Additionally, the volume engages in timely discussions of intersectionality, replicability, and the future of the field. As the first unified reference on Spanish sociophonetic perception, this volume will be useful in graduate and undergraduate classrooms, in libraries, and on the bookshelf of any scholar interested in Spanish sociophonetics"--.

• Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction: Spanish sociophonetic perception: The state of the field
  • References
• Spain
• 1. The role of social cues in the perception of final vowel contrasts in Asturian Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Social information and language processing
    • 2.2 Exemplar theory
    • 2.3 Final vowels in Asturian Spanish
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 Experiment design
    • 3.2 Participants
    • 3.3 Statistical analysis
  • 4. Results
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• 2. Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Linguistic attitudes and speech features in Catalonia
    • 2.1 Matched guise studies in Catalonia
    • 2.2 Laterals and intervocalic fricatives in Spanish and Catalan
  • 3. Research questions and hypotheses concerning Catalans’ Spanish [ɫ] and [z]
  • 4. Experimental methodology
    • 4.1 Matched guise
      • 4.1.1 Guise stimuli
      • 4.1.2 Presentation of guise stimuli
      • 4.1.3 Matched guise questionnaire
    • 4.2 Debriefing interview
    • 4.3 Subject population
  • 5. Data analysis methods and results
    • 5.1 Data analysis
    • 5.2 Matched guise results (Covert attitudes)
      • 5.2.1 Solidarity scores
      • 5.2.2 Power scores
      • 5.2.3 Accent scores
      • 5.2.4 Rurality scores
      • 5.2.5 Bilingualism scores
    • 5.3 Debriefing interview results (overt attitudes)
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix A. Guise Passages
  • Appendix B. Matched Guise Questionnaire
• Dialectology meets sociophonetics: The social evaluation of ‘ceceo’ and ‘distinción’ in Lepe, 3. Spain
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 “Rural” traditional dialectology to “urban” variationist sociolinguistics
    • 2.2 The linguistic variable
    • 2.3 Previous studies on coronal fricatives
    • 2.4 The speech community of Lepe
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 Stimuli
    • 3.2 Experimental design
    • 3.3 Implementation and participants
    • 3.4 Statistical analysis
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Socioeconomic status
    • 4.2 Education
    • 4.3 Masculinity/Femininity
    • 4.4 Urban-ness/Rural-ness
    • 4.5 Formality
    • 4.6 Occupational prestige
    • 4.7 Origin
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix A. The spontaneous speech sentences with syllable initial coronal fricatives underlined and bolded
  • Appendix B. Questionnaire used in the perception experiment (one speaker block)
• South America
• 4. Regional identity in Highland Ecuador: Social evaluation of intervocalic /s/ voicing
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature review
    • 2.1 Ecuadorian Spanish
    • 2.2 Intervocalic /s/ voicing
    • 2.3 Perception of /s/
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 Stimuli
    • 3.2 Experiment design
    • 3.3 Participants
    • 3.4 Statistical analysis
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Status factor
    • 4.2 Pleasantness
    • 4.3 Age
    • 4.4 Masculinity/femininity
    • 4.5 Regional origin
  • 5. Discussion and conclusion
    • 5.1 Interaction of gender in social perception
    • 5.2 Intervocalic /s/ voicing as a regional marker and potential change in progress
    • 5.3 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 5. Spanish and Palenquero: Language identification through phonological correspondences
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature review
    • 2.1 Palenquero (Lengua ri Palenge)
    • 2.2 Palenquero-Spanish phonological alternations
    • 2.3 The psycholinguistic and sociophonetic role of Palenquero-Spanish phonological alternations
    • 2.4 The linguistic ecology of Palenque
  • 3. Methods
    • 3.1 Experiment 1: Language identification of lexical items
      • 3.1.1 Participants
      • 3.1.2 Materials
      • 3.1.3 Procedure
      • 3.1.4 Results and discussion
    • 3.2 Experiment 2: Language identification through eye movement
      • 3.2.1 Participants
      • 3.2.2 Materials
      • 3.2.3 Procedure
      • 3.2.4 Results and discussion
    • 3.3 Experiment 3: Identification of language switches through eye movement
      • 3.3.1 Participants
      • 3.3.2 Materials
      • 3.3.3 Procedure
      • 3.3.4 Results and discussion
  • 4. General discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 6. The role of social networks in cross-dialectal variation in the perception of the Rioplatense assibilated pre-palatal [ʃ]
  • Introduction
  • Background
    • Regional variation in speech perception, Spanish
    • Social networks and speech perception
    • Variation in articulation of Spanish orthographic and
    • Research questions
  • Method
    • Participants
    • Tasks
      • Identification task
      • Language Background and Dialect Contact Questionnaire
      • Data analysis
  • Results
    • Categorization of Rioplatense pre-palatal by yeísta listeners
    • Regional variation in categorization of [ʃ]
    • Individual variation and dialect contact experiences
    • Metalinguistic commentary
  • Discussion
    • Categorization of the sociophonetic variants by the 'yeísta' listeners
    • Regional perceptual variation according to degree of dialect contact
    • Social networks and speech perception
  • Conclusion
  • References
• 7. The social perception of intervocalic /k/ voicing in Chilean Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature review
    • 2.1 Reduction and voicing as social variables in Spanish
    • 2.2 Perception of intervocalic voicing in Spanish
    • 2.3 The present study
  • 3. Experimental design
    • 3.1 Matched-Guise Technique
    • 3.2 Stimuli selection and manipulation
    • 3.3 Experimental delivery
    • 3.4 Participants
  • 4. Analysis
  • 5. Results
    • Status
    • Niceness
    • Chilean identity
    • Perceived age
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
• North America
• 8. The sociophonetic perception of heritage Spanish speakers in the United States: Reactions to labiodentalized in the speech of late immigrant and U.S.-born voices
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature review
    • 2.1 Labiodentalized
    • 2.2 A more detailed look at heritage speakers
    • 2.3 The importance of sex in sociophonetic studies
    • 2.4 Research questions
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 Speakers
    • 3.2 Experiment and participants
    • 3.3 Statistical analysis
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Hispanicity/confidence/Spanish competence
    • 4.2 Intelligence/work ethic
    • 4.3 Perceived age
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• 9. Spoken word recognition and ‘shesheo’ in Northwestern Mexico: A preliminary investigation into the effects of sociophonetic variability on auditory lexical access
  • Introduction
    • Review of the literature
      • Shesheo and Norteño Mexican Spanish
    • Phonetic variability and spoken word recognition
    • The present study
  • Method
    • Participants
    • Design and materials
    • Stimuli
    • Procedure
    • Analysis
  • Results
    • Recognition rates
    • Response latencies
  • Discussion
    • Summary of findings
    • Interpretation and implications
  • Conclusion
  • References
• 10. The perception-production connection: /tʃ/ deaffrication and rhotic assibilation in Chihuahua Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature review
    • 2.1 Rhotics and rhotic assibilation
    • 2.2 Deaffrication of the voiceless post-alveolar affricate /tʃ/
    • 2.3 Change from above and below
    • 2.4 Hypothesis
  • 3. Method
    • 3.1 Speakers
    • 3.2 Data collection
    • 3.3 Coding and statistical analysis
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Production and perception
    • 4.2 The Production-perception relationship
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
• Future Directions
• 11. Of intersectionality, replicability, and holistic perspectives: Methodological considerations in Spanish sociophonetic perception studies
  • Introduction
  • Intersectional approaches
  • Reproducibility
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• 12. Future directions for sociophonetic research in Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Variables of interest for future research
    • 2.1 Vowels
    • 2.2 Prosody
  • 3. Theoretical approaches for future research
    • 3.1 The role of the listener as the initiator of sound change
    • 3.2 The role of the production-perception relationship in sound change
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Index