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Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual SocietiesEdited by Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 13] 2012
► pp. 391–404
Devoicing of sibilants as a segmental cue to the influence of Spanish onto current Catalan phonology
Ariadna Benet | University of Hamburg, Germany
Susana Cortés | University of Hamburg, Germany
Conxita Lleó | University of Hamburg, Germany
This article presents production data of sibilant segments by Catalan speakers in a Spanish-Catalan bilingual context. Catalan includes voiced sibilants in its sound system, whereas Spanish only has voiceless ones. Subjects come from two areas of Barcelona differing in the degree of presence of Spanish. Based on previous results on vowel production, we predict that Catalan sibilants, especially the voiceless ones, will be less often produced in a target-like manner in the more Spanish-speaking area, and especially in the younger groups (3–5 and 19–23 years old). Our results confirm this prediction for /z/, whereas for the affricate /dŠ/ percentages of target-like production are low in all groups. These results are accounted for by several internal and external linguistic factors.
Published online: 22 August 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.13.25ben
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.13.25ben
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