Chapter published in:
Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic PerceptionEdited by Whitney Chappell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 21] 2019
► pp. 15–38
Chapter 1The role of social cues in the perception of final vowel contrasts in Asturian Spanish
Sonia Barnes | Marquette University
Influenced by the minority language of the region, speakers of Asturian Spanish vary in their production of word-final back vowels in the masculine singular morpheme, with realizations that range from Spanish [o] (/pero/) to Asturian [u] (/peru/). Previous research has found that listeners’ social judgements of speakers are affected by whether [-o] or [-u] are used. This study explores how social cues about the speakers affect the listeners’ perception of these vowels. The results of a binary forced-choice identification task combined with sociolinguistic priming show that productions paired with visuals of urban status were more likely to be identified as Spanish /-o/, but only when listeners were in favor of Asturian attaining co-official status. The results contribute to our understanding of the role that explicit stigmatization and overt language attitudes have on phonetic representation.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background
- 2.1Social information and language processing
- 2.2Exemplar theory
- 2.3Final vowels in Asturian Spanish
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1Experiment design
- 3.2Participants
- 3.3Statistical analysis
- 4.Results
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusions
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References
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21.02bar
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21.02bar
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