Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception

Editor

Whitney Chappell

| University of Texas at San Antonio

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ISBN 9789027204226 | EUR 105.00 | USD 158.00

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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.

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 21] 2019. vi, 344 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21

Table of Contents

Introduction: Spanish sociophonetic perception: The state of the field Whitney Chappell	2–12
Spain	16–121
Chapter 1. The role of social cues in the perception of final vowel contrasts in Asturian Spanish Sonia Barnes	16–38
Chapter 2. Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives Justin Davidson	40–83
Chapter 3. Dialectology meets sociophonetics: The social evaluation of ceceo and distinción in Lepe, Spain Brendan Regan	86–121
South America	126–235
Chapter 4. Regional identity in Highland Ecuador: Social evaluation of intervocalic /s/ voicing Christina García	126–152
Chapter 5. Spanish and Palenquero: Language identification through phonological correspondences John M. Lipski	154–185
Chapter 6. The role of social networks in cross-dialectal variation in the perception of the Rioplatense assibilated pre-palatal [ʃ] Lauren B. Schmidt	188–209
Chapter 7. The social perception of intervocalic /k/ voicing in Chilean Spanish Mariška A. Bolyanatz Brown and Brandon M.A. Rogers	212–235
North America	240–311
Chapter 8. The sociophonetic perception of heritage Spanish speakers in the United States: Reactions to labiodentalized <v> in the speech of late immigrant and U.S.-born voices Whitney Chappell	240–264
Chapter 9. Spoken word recognition and shesheo in Northwestern Mexico: A preliminary investigation into the effects of sociophonetic variability on auditory lexical access Mariela López Velarde and Miquel Simonet	266–285
Chapter 10. The perception-production connection: /tʃ/ deaffrication and rhotic assibilation in Chihuahua Spanish Natalia Mazzaro and Raquel González de Anda	288–311
Future Directions	316–340
Chapter 11. Of intersectionality, replicability, and holistic perspectives: Methodological considerations in Spanish sociophonetic perception studies Sara Mack	316–325
Chapter 12. Future directions for sociophonetic research in Spanish Nicholas Henriksen	328–340
Index	341–344

“Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception is an outstanding and timely crafted volume, primarily concerned with understanding the social meanings associated with sociolinguistic phenomena in the Spanish-speaking world. The volume comprises twelve scholarly papers divided in five sections (i.e. introduction, Spain, South America, North America, and Future Directions) and it provides the most complete and current perspective on the subject in a single source. Readers will be delighted to learn about the most recent advances in the area, the relationship between perception and production studies, methodological innovations, and suggestions for future investigation. A must-read book for students and scholars of language, variation, and change.”

Manuel Díaz-Campos, Indiana University, Bloomington

“Sociophonetic studies are the cornerstone of “third-wave” sociolinguistics, but they have so far been concentrated mainly on varieties of English. Chappell has done a phenomenal job in bringing together some of the brightest minds in Hispanic linguistics to contribute groundbreaking case studies to this volume. In the process, she has created an essential point of departure for all future research on Spanish sociophonetics. This book will be required reading for generations of linguists to come!”

Scott Schwenter, The Ohio State University

“In curating this volume, Chappell has proffered a welcome corrective to scholarship on linguistic variation in the Spanish-speaking world, complementing extant sociophonetic research on variable segmental and prosodic production with studies focused on the social meanings that they convey. The collected works further illuminate the ways in which phonetic variation informs the social identities and organization of speakers and communities, advancing Hispanic Linguistics and the field of language variation more generally.”

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, University of Texas, Austin

Subjects

Linguistics

Romance linguistics

Phonetics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

BIC Subject: CFH – Phonetics, phonology

BISAC Subject: LAN011000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019029427