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Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan
Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos and Sandro Sessarego
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 32] 2021
► pp. 97–124

Chapter 5
Social perception of the variable realization of /tʃ/ in Chile

| UNC Wilmington
| College of Charleston

This study uses the matched-guise technique to measure the attitudes of forty-one Chilean participants towards the variable realization of the affricate /tʃ/. The present study analyzes three variants of the phoneme and their relationships with various characteristics within society. Within the present study, there is social stratification of the phoneme /tʃ/ in which the variant [ʃ] is associated with a lower social stratum and the variants [tʃ] and [ts] are associated with a higher social stratum. Speakers who employ [ʃ] receive statistically lower ratings for all of the characteristics, while speakers who employ [tʃ] and [ts] receive statistically higher ratings in the matched-guise study.

Keywords: sociolinguistics, matched-guise technique, Chilean Spanish, deaffrication
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1The affricate /tʃ/ and its variants
    • 1.2Chilean /tʃ/
    • 1.3Social perception
  • 2.Relevant literature
    • 2.1Matched-guise studies
    • 2.2Studies on the variable realization of the affricate /tʃ/
  • 3.Research questions
  • 4.Methodology
    • 4.1Participants
    • 4.2Experiment procedures
    • 4.3Stimulus
    • 4.4Questionnaire
    • 4.5Analysis
  • 5.Results
    • 5.1Results for ‘attractive’
    • 5.2Results for ‘educated’
    • 5.3Results for ‘professional’
    • 5.4Results for ‘friendly’
    • 5.5Results for ‘trustworthy’
    • 5.6Results for ‘wealthy’
    • 5.7Summary of results
  • 6.Discussion
    • 6.1Discussion of research questions
  • 7.Conclusions and future directions
  • References
Published online: 12 January 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.32.05boo
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