Using a corpus of Medieval Spanish text, we examine factors affecting the Modern Standard Spanish outcome of the initial /f/ in Latin FV‑ words. Regression analyses reveal that the frequency of a word’s use in extralexical phonetic reducing environments and lexical stress patterns significantly predict the modern distribution of f‑ ([f]) and h‑ (Ø) in the Spanish lexicon of FV‑ words. Quantification of extralexical phonetic context of use has not previously been incorporated in studies of diachronic phonology. We find no effect of word frequency, lexical phonology, word class, or word transmission history. The results suggest that rather than frequency of use, it is more specifically a word’s likelihood of use in contexts favoring reduction that promotes phonological change. The failure to find a significant effect of transmission history highlights the relative importance of language internal sources of change. Results are consistent with usage-based approaches; contextual variation creates differential articulatory pressures among words, yielding variable pronunciations that, when registered in memory, promote diachronic change.
2024. The role of constructions in understanding predictability measures and their correspondence to word duration. Cognitive Linguistics 35:3 ► pp. 377 ff.
Patchell, Abigail E. & Grant M. Berry
2024. TH-stopping in Philadelphia Puerto Rican English. Language Variation and Change 36:1 ► pp. 73 ff.
BROWN, ESTHER
2023. The Long‐Term Accrual in Memory of Contextual Conditioning Effects. In The Handbook of Usage‐Based Linguistics, ► pp. 179 ff.
Lease, Sarah
2023. A usage-based account of paragogic /e/ in 20th century New Mexican Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 16:2 ► pp. 473 ff.
RIVAS, JAVIER
2023. The Future of Usage‐Based Approaches. In The Handbook of Usage‐Based Linguistics, ► pp. 473 ff.
Gradoville, Michael S., Earl Kjar Brown & Richard J. File-Muriel
2022. The phonetics of sociophonetics: Validating acoustic approaches to Spanish /s/. Journal of Phonetics 91 ► pp. 101125 ff.
Brown, Esther L., William D. Raymond, Earl Kjar Brown & Richard J. File-Muriel
2021. Lexically specific accumulation in memory of word and segment speech rates. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 17:3 ► pp. 625 ff.
2020. The Effect of Forms’ Ratio of Conditioning on Word-Final /s/ Voicing in Mexican Spanish. Languages 5:4 ► pp. 61 ff.
BROWN, EARL KJAR
2023. Repetition and Procedural Knowledge of Sound Patterns. In The Handbook of Usage‐Based Linguistics, ► pp. 127 ff.
Brown, Earl Kjar
2023. Cumulative exposure to fast speech conditions duration of content words in English. Language Variation and Change 35:2 ► pp. 153 ff.
Kanwit, Matthew & Virginia Terán
2020. Ideas Buenas o Buenas Ideas: Phonological, Semantic, and Frequency Effects on Variable Adjective Ordering in Rioplatense Spanish. Languages 5:4 ► pp. 65 ff.
Kaźmierski, Kamil
2020. Prevocalic t-glottaling across word boundaries in Midland American English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 11:1
Seyfarth, Scott & Marc Garellek
2020. Physical and phonological causes of coda /t/ glottalization in the mainstream American English of central Ohio. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 11:1 ► pp. 24 ff.
BYBEE, JOAN & RICARDO NAPOLEÃO DE SOUZA
2019. Vowel duration in English adjectives in attributive and predicative constructions. Language and Cognition 11:4 ► pp. 555 ff.
2018. Sociophonetics: The Role of Words, the Role of Context, and the Role of Words in Context. Topics in Cognitive Science 10:4 ► pp. 696 ff.
Brown, Earl K. & Matthew C. Alba
2017. The role of contextual frequency in the articulation of initial /f/ in Modern Spanish: The same effect as in the reduction of Latin /f/?. Language Variation and Change 29:1 ► pp. 57 ff.
Bybee, Joan
2017. Grammatical and lexical factors in sound change: A usage-based approach. Language Variation and Change 29:3 ► pp. 273 ff.
BYBEE, JOAN
2023. What Is Usage‐Based Linguistics?. In The Handbook of Usage‐Based Linguistics, ► pp. 7 ff.
Forrest, Jon
2017. The dynamic interaction between lexical and contextual frequency: A case study of (ING). Language Variation and Change 29:2 ► pp. 129 ff.
Van Buren, Jackelyn
2017. The role of social networks in the retention of /f/ aspiration among Mexican migrant workers in the Pacific Northwest. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 10:1 ► pp. 161 ff.
Berry, Grant M.
2016. Processing linguistic variation through dual mechanisms of cognitive control. Linguistics Vanguard 2:s1
BYBEE, JOAN, RICHARD J. FILE-MURIEL & RICARDO NAPOLEÃO DE SOUZA
2016. Special reduction: a usage-based approach. Language and Cognition 8:3 ► pp. 421 ff.
Raymond, William D., Esther L. Brown & Alice F. Healy
2016. Cumulative context effects and variant lexical representations: Word use and English final t/d deletion. Language Variation and Change 28:2 ► pp. 175 ff.
Brown, Esther L.
2015. The role of discourse context frequency in phonological variation: A usage-based approach to bilingual speech production. International Journal of Bilingualism 19:4 ► pp. 387 ff.
2015. Fine-grained and probabilistic cross-linguistic influence in the pronunciation of cognates: Evidence from corpus-based spontaneous conversation and experimentally elicited data. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 8:1 ► pp. 59 ff.
Bybee, Joan & Clay Beckner
2015. Emergence at the Cross‐Linguistic Level. In The Handbook of Language Emergence, ► pp. 181 ff.
Caballero, Gabriela & Vsevolod Kapatsinski
2015. Perceptual functionality of morphological redundancy in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30:9 ► pp. 1134 ff.
Walker, Abby
2015. ChiaraCelata and SilviaCalamai (eds.). Advances in Sociophonetics (Studies in Language Variation 15). Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2014. xi + 214 pp. Hb (9789027234957) €99.00/US$149.00.. Journal of Sociolinguistics 19:4 ► pp. 567 ff.
Bullock, Barbara E., Almeida Jacqueline Toribio & Mark Amengual
2014. The status of s in Dominican Spanish. Lingua 143 ► pp. 20 ff.
2014. Phonological and morphological constraints on German /t/-deletions. Journal of Phonetics 45 ► pp. 64 ff.
Brown, Esther L. & Javier Rivas
2012. Grammatical relation probability: How usage patterns shape analogy. Language Variation and Change 24:3 ► pp. 317 ff.
Brown, Esther L. & Javier Rivas
2024. Constructional sources of durational shortening in discourse markers. Linguistics 62:4 ► pp. 1023 ff.
Brown, Esther L. & Javier Rivas
2024. Variant Choices of Future Time Reference in Galician: The Grammaticalization of [haber (de) + infinitive] as a Window to Diachronic Change. Languages 9:4 ► pp. 142 ff.
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