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Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic PerceptionEdited by Whitney Chappell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 21] 2019
► pp. 153–186
Chapter 5Spanish and Palenquero
Language identification through phonological correspondences
John M. Lipski | The Pennsylvania State University
The Afro-Colombian creole language Palenquero, spoken in the village of San Basilio de Palenque, has been in contact with its historical lexifier, Spanish, for several centuries. The lexicons of the two languages are more than 90% cognate, including complete identity (based on the local vernacular variety of Spanish) and predictable phonological modifications resulting from the historical development of Palenquero in contact with Kikongo and other Central African languages, in addition to some less predictable correspondences. Previous research has demonstrated that Palenquero-Spanish bilinguals are influenced by key grammatical items in on-line (real-time) identification of the language of an utterance (all-Spanish, all-Palenquero, or mixed). The present study examines the role of regular Palenquero-Spanish phonotactic correspondences in facilitating language identification by Palenquero-Spanish bilinguals. Three experiments provide data: a single-word language identification task, an on-line rapid language identification task, and an on-line processing task in which participants signal points of transition between Palenquero and Spanish. The results point to a subtle but real role for Palenquero-Spanish phonological predictability in language identification, with enhanced importance for young L2 Palenquero speakers. More generally, the observations are relevant to other revitalization efforts that involve a minority language substantially cognate with the dominant language. The data from L2 Palenquero speakers suggest that sociophonetic awareness can aid in bootstrapping emergent grammatical competence in the minority language.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Literature review
- 2.1Palenquero (Lengua ri Palenge)
- 2.2Palenquero-Spanish phonological alternations
- 2.3The psycholinguistic and sociophonetic role of Palenquero-Spanish phonological alternations
- 2.4The linguistic ecology of Palenque
- 3.Methods
- 3.1Experiment 1: Language identification of lexical items
- 3.1.1Participants
- 3.1.2Materials
- 3.1.3Procedure
- 3.1.4Results and discussion
- 3.2Experiment 2: Language identification through eye movement
- 3.2.1Participants
- 3.2.2Materials
- 3.2.3Procedure
- 3.2.4Results and discussion
- 3.3Experiment 3: Identification of language switches through eye movement
- 3.3.1Participants
- 3.3.2Materials
- 3.3.3Procedure
- 3.3.4Results and discussion
- 3.1Experiment 1: Language identification of lexical items
- 4.General discussion
- 5.Conclusion
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Acknowledgments -
Notes -
References
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21.06lip
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.21.06lip
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