Fernando Melero-García
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fernando Melero-García plays a role.
Articles
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
2020 Chapter 14. No es tan simple como parece: The effect of duration of one-closure rhotics on the perception of Spanish /ɾ/ and /r/ Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego and Idoia Elola (eds.), pp. 295–318 | Chapter
This study analyzes the effect of duration on the perception of Spanish /ɾ/ and /r/. A total of 143 participants completed a questionnaire with 183 stimuli. The stimuli were Spanish words with one single intervocalic tap whose duration was manipulated. Participants listened to each stimulus once,… read more