Brandon O. Baird

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brandon O. Baird plays a role.

Articles

Baird, Brandon O. 2023 Social perceptions of /f/ fortition in Guatemalan SpanishSpanish in Context 20:3, pp. 599–625 | Article
Research on Guatemalan Spanish has increasingly shown the effects of contact with Mayan languages. However, whereas most studies have focused on the structural outcomes of Spanish-Mayan contact, fewer studies have analyzed how native Guatemalans socially perceive these features and, by… read more
The point vowels /i, a, u/ serve to mark the extremes of the acoustic vowel space; however, previous experimental research on K’ichee’ has shown that the acoustic location of point vowels varies according to the vowel inventory of the specific dialect of K’ichee’. The present study analyzes the… read more
Baird, Brandon O. 2017 Chapter 7. Prosodic transfer among Spanish-K’ichee’ bilingualsMultidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bellamy, Kate, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 149–174 | Chapter
This chapter presents a case of prosodic transfer among Spanish-K’ichee’ (Mayan) bilinguals from two communities in Guatemala: Nahualá and Cantel. Specifically, it analyzes the use of duration to mark contrastive focus in both Spanish and K’ichee’. The results of a production task demonstrate that… read more