Erik W. Willis
List of John Benjamins publications for which Erik W. Willis plays a role.
2024 Chapter 5. More than occlusions: The role of duration in perceiving the Spanish tap-trill contrast by heritage speakers of Spanish Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism, Gradoville, Michael and Sean McKinnon (eds.), pp. 122–150 | Chapter
The Spanish /ɾ/-/r/ contrast is prototypically maintained by number of occlusions; however, heritage and monolingual Spanish speakers also produce /r/ with one occlusion, using closure duration of the rhotic to maintain contrast. In the present study, 43 Spanish heritage speakers heard 40… read more
2023 Chapter 5. The emergence of sound change in two varieties of Spanish: A usage-based analysis of variable trill /r/ production in Caracas, Venezuela, and Caguas, Puerto Rico Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation, Fernández Cuenca, Sara, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller (eds.), pp. 106–129 | Chapter
We examine social and linguistic factors, including lexical frequency, that influence variable production of the alveolar rhotic trill in Caracas, Venezuela, and the region surrounding Caguas, Puerto Rico. Two categories of rhotic productions are established: non-innovative trills with two or… read more
2005 Tonal levels in Puebla Mexico Spanish Declaratives and Absolute Interrogatives Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004, Gess, Randall and Edward J. Rubin (eds.), pp. 351–363 | Article
Bachatéame, pero con la /s/: La hipercorrección de la /s/ implosiva en la bachata Spanish in Context: Online-First Articles | Article
El presente estudio analiza la /s/ implosiva en la bachata, un género musical de la República Dominicana asociado con la clase popular. Se examina la producción de la /s/ implosiva en canciones de trece bachateros y en entrevistas públicas de un subgrupo de seis integrantes. Los resultados de… read more