Justin Davidson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Justin Davidson plays a role.
2022 Chapter 13. On (not) acquiring a sociolinguistic stereotype: A variationist account of L2-Catalan lateral production by L1-Spanish bilinguals Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 337–358 | Chapter
Catalan exhibits a systematic velarization of alveolar lateral /l/ to (dark) [ɫ], somewhat infamously and even pejoratively recognized by speakers as la ela catalana ‘the Catalan l,’ in salient opposition to the non-velarized (or light) realizations of the parallel alveolar lateral Spanish… read more
2020 Chapter 14. Spanish phonology in contact with Catalan: On implementations of gradience and discreteness in the study of sociolinguistic variation of laterals Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, Rao, Rajiv (ed.), pp. 383–420 | Chapter
This study investigates sociophonetic variation in the production of the alveolar lateral /l/ in Catalan and Spanish, the velarization of which is considered the hallmark feature of Catalonian Spanish (Arnal, 2011; Casanovas Català, 1995; Hickey, 2012). Using an innovative combination of both… read more
2019 Chapter 2. Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, Chappell, Whitney (ed.), pp. 39–84 | Chapter
Building off a series of matched guise studies focused on attitudes toward native-like (L1) and accented (L2) Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia, Spain (Woolard, 1984, 1989, 2009, 2011; Woolard & Gahng, 1990), this study explores covert and overt attitudes toward two specific phonetic features of… read more
2014 A comparison of fricative voicing and lateral velarization phenomena in Barcelona: A variationist approach to Spanish in contact with Catalan Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012, Lahousse, Karen and Stefania Marzo (eds.), pp. 223–244 | Article
This investigation constitutes a quantitative variationist approach toward Spanish in contact with Catalan in Barcelona, Spain. It seeks to empirically measure concrete usage patterns of two phonetic variants, [ɫ] and [z], in the Spanish of Catalan-Spanish bilinguals, as well as establish the… read more