Natalia Mazzaro

List of John Benjamins publications for which Natalia Mazzaro plays a role.

Articles

This study investigates the perception and production of two sociophonetic variables of Chihuahua Spanish: rhotic assibilation ([ř]), a change from above associated with women and higher classes, and deaffrication of the voiceless post-alveolar affricate ([ʃ]), a change from below associated with… read more
Colantoni, Laura, Alejandro Cuza and Natalia Mazzaro 2016 Task-related effects in the prosody of Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrantsIntonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
We compare the extent to which Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants in the United States differ in their intonation of broad focus declaratives, and propose that the between-group variability is motivated by the specific language learning/literacy conditions of each group. Results… read more
Mazzaro, Natalia, Alejandro Cuza and Laura Colantoni 2016 Age effects and the discrimination of consonantal and vocalic contrasts in heritage and native SpanishRomance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013, Tortora, Christina, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill (eds.), pp. 277–300 | Article
This study explores the perception of consonantal and vocalic contrasts in two groups of Spanish-English bilingual speakers: heritage speakers and long-term immigrants. We test the discrimination of Spanish stops and mid and high vowels via an AX discrimination task with natural stimuli consisting… read more