"Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their manifestation. Drawing upon seminal works in the fields of language contact in general, Spanish in contact with indigenous and regional languages, and laboratory approaches tied to the languages in question, the volume's contents employ acoustic and quantitative approaches, as well as both controlled and spontaneous data elicitation procedures, to shed light on how linguistic, historical, and social variables drive contact phenomena, and in turn, shape specific varieties of Spanish. It will pique the interest of researchers and students of fields such as contact linguistics, language variation and change, segmental and suprasegmental phonetics and phonology, and sociolinguistics"--.

• Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• Equatorial Guinea Spanish non-continuant /d/
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Spanish of Equatorial Guinea
  • 3. Realizations of /d/, /ɾ/, and /r/ in Equatorial Guinean Spanish
  • 4. Extraction of data on intervocalic /d/ and /ɾ/ in Equatorial Guinean Spanish
  • 5. Results of the acoustic analysis
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
• The changing rhythm of Yucatan Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Yucatan Spanish accent
  • 3. Prosodic rhythm and timing metrics in studies of Spanish
    • 3.1 Rhythm and metrics
    • 3.2 Rhythmic timing in Spanish
    • 3.3 Rhythmic timing in Yucatec Maya
    • 3.4 Contact effects in rhythmic timing
  • 4. Methods
    • 4.1 Real and apparent time in sociolinguistics
    • 4.2 Data and participants
  • 5. Results
    • 5.1 Age group mean values
    • 5.2 Speaker patterns
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
• The vowel spaces of Spanish-K’ichee’ bilinguals
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Vowel spaces and point vowels
  • 3. The present study
  • 4. Methodology
  • 5. Results
    • 5.1 Spanish vowel comparisons across dialects
    • 5.2 Spanish and K’ichee’ bilingual vowel comparisons
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix
• Social contact and linguistic convergence
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A brief history of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
  • 3. Voiced stop spirantization in the Spanish-speaking world
  • 4. Methods
  • 5. Results and discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• A preliminary, descriptive survey of rhotic and approximant f
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Andean Spanish
    • 1.2 Imbabura Quichua
    • 1.3 Media Lengua
  • 2. Production of liquids and fricatives
    • 2.1 Trills [r] and approximant trills [r̞]
    • 2.2 Fricatives [ʒ] and [ʐ]
    • 2.3 Approximants [ʎ] and [j]
  • 3. Method
    • 3.1 Field locations
    • 3.3 Materials
    • 3.4 Procedures
      • 3.4.1 Elicitation sessions
      • 3.4.2 Reading sessions
    • 3.5 Categorization
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Trills (Spanish) and voiced retroflex fricatives (Quichua)
    • 4.2 Taps
    • 4.3 Palatal lateral approximants (Spanish) and voiced alveopalatal fricatives (Quichua)
    • 4.4 Palatal approximants
    • 4.5 Results summary
  • 5. Discussion
    • 5.1 Fricative maintenance/divergence
    • 5.2 Taps
    • 5.3 Yeísmo or lleísmo?
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
• Intervocalic phonemic stop realization in Amazonian Peru
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
    • 2.1 Phonemic stops in Spanish and Yagua
    • 2.2 Previous research on lenition of stop phonemes in L1 and L2 Spanish
    • 2.3 Theoretical framework and research questions
  • 3. Methods
    • 3.1 Data collection
    • 3.2 Participants
    • 3.3 Acoustic analysis
    • 3.4 Statistical analysis
  • 4. Results
    • 5.1 Responses to research questions
    • 5.2 Implications
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix. Statistical results of LMEMs
• Rhotics in Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Rhotics in monolingual Amazonian Spanish from the city of Pucallpa
  • 3. ‘r’ in Shipibo-Konibo: The voiced retroflex affricate /ɖʐ/
  • 4. Rhotics in Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
    • 4.1 Type-I Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
    • 4.2 Type-II Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
    • 4.3 Type-III Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
  • 5. Discussion and conclusion
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
• Afro-Peruvian Spanish intonation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Intonational phonology in Spanish
  • 3. Motivation and research questions
  • 4. Data collection methodology and procedure for analysis
    • 4.1 Data collection methodology
    • 4.2 Data analysis
  • 5. Results
    • 5.1 Prenuclear
    • 5.2 Nuclear
      • 5.2.1 Non-terminal discourse junctures
    • 5.2.2 Terminal discourse junctures
  • 6. Discussion and conclusion
  • References
• The interaction of social factors in the acoustically gradient realization of intervocalic /d/ in Border Uruguayan Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 The linguistic situation in Rivera, Uruguay
    • 1.2 The /d/ phoneme in Spanish
    • 1.3 Variable production of intervocalic /d/ in Rivera Spanish
    • 1.4 Objectives of the current research
  • 2. Data and methodology
    • 2.1 The Rivera corpus
    • 2.2 Assessing language use and preference
    • 2.3 Participants for the current research
    • 2.4 Measurements and response variables
    • 2.4.1 Moderator variables
    • 2.5 Social variables
      • 2.5.1 Age
      • 2.5.2 Sex
      • 2.5.3 Profession
      • 2.5.4 Language use
      • 2.5.5 Language preference
    • 2.6 Statistical procedure
  • 3. Results
    • 3.1 Language preference and use
    • 3.2 Main effects
    • 3.3 Interaction
  • 4. Discussion
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
  • Appendix A: Language Use Questionnaire
• The Spanish sound system and intonation in contact with Galician
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Galician and Spanish in contact
  • 3. Previous work on Galician Spanish
  • 4. Corpus and methodology
  • 5. Results
    • 5.1 Stressed vowels
    • 5.2 Unstressed final vowels
    • 5.3 Intonation
      • 5.3.1 Information-seeking yes-no questions
      • 5.3.2 Information-seeking wh-questions
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• The unstressed vowel system of Asturian Spanish
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background
  • 3. Methodology
    • 3.1 Participants and data
    • 3.2 Acoustic and statistical analyses
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Word-final position versus unstressed word-internal position
    • 4.2 Pillai scores, age, and gender
  • 5. Discussion and conclusions
  • References
• Spanish phonology in contact with Catalan
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Assessments of lateral production in Spanish, Catalan, and other languages
    • 2.1 Lateral production in (monolingual) Spanish
    • 2.2 Lateral production in Catalan
    • 2.3 On the classifications and criteria for distinguishing light and dark laterals
    • 2.4 Acoustic metrics for assessing gradient velarization and discrete lateral allophones
  • 3. Research questions and hypotheses concerning CCS lateral production
  • 4. Experimental methodology
    • 4.1 Linguistic factors
    • 4.2 Social factors and subject population
    • 4.3 Test instruments
    • 4.4 Data collection methods
  • 5. Data analysis methods and results
    • 5.1 Acoustic analysis
    • 5.2 Total counts of collected lateral production data
    • 5.3 Results – overall distribution of lateral production by language and profile group
    • 5.4 Results – linguistic and social factors conditioning CCS and Catalan lateral velarization
  • 6. Discussion
    • 6.1 Lateral velarization in CCS, Catalan, and monolingual Spanish
    • 6.2 Lateral inventories and considerations for the classification of light and dark laterals
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
• Portuguese remnants in the Spanish of Olivenza (Extremadura)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Historical background and sociolinguistic situation
  • 3. Phonological features of Olivenza Spanish
    • 3.1 Segmental features
    • 3.2 Raising of unstressed /o/ in OS
    • 3.3 Prosody
      • 3.3.1 Durational features and global speech rhythm
        • 3.3.1.1 Theoretical background Regarding their timing patterns, the ­languages of the world are traditionally classified as either stress-timed or syllable-timed (Abercrombie, 1967; Pike, 1945). According to this view, the perceivable contrast between the
        • 3.3.1.2 Global speech rhythm and lengthening effects in Olivenza Spanish
      • 3.3.2 Intonation
        • 3.3.2.1 Theoretical background During recent decades, the interest in describing and modeling intonation has steadily grown, both from an experimental and a theoretical perspective. Important conceptual work has been done within different frameworks (e.g.
        • 3.3.2.2 A salient melodic feature of Olivenza Spanish: Question intonation In his general overview of the linguistic features of OS, Sánchez Fernández (1997) characterizes its intonation as being “aún más exclamativa y de tono más elevado que la extremeña
    • 3.4 Discussion
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Index