Brandon M.A. Rogers
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brandon M.A. Rogers plays a role.
2020 Chapter 11. Exploring focus extension in Mapudungun and Chilean Spanish intonational plateaus: The case for pragmatic transfer through language contact Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, Rao, Rajiv (ed.), pp. 293–324 | Chapter
Notions that Mapudungun, a polysynthetic agglutinating isolate spoken in modern-day Chile, has had any linguistic influence on Chilean Spanish outside of lexical loanwords have met stiff resistance (e.g., Alonso, 1953); however, recent studies (e.g., Sadowsky, 2013) suggest that Mapudungun’s… read more
2020 Chapter 4. Social change and /s/ variation in Concepción, Chile and Lima, Peru: The role of dialect and sociolectal contact Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives, Ortiz López, Luis A., Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera (eds.), pp. 85–114 | Chapter
This study compares /s/ variation in the Spanish of Concepción, Chile, and Lima, Peru in the context of sociolectal and dialect contact. Results for the Chilean data stand in stark contrast to previous studies in Chile, revealing an overwhelming tendency for elision in all social groups and… read more
2019 Chapter 7. The social perception of intervocalic /k/ voicing in Chilean Spanish Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, Chappell, Whitney (ed.), pp. 211–235 | Chapter
In this study, we investigate what social meaning is attributed to a nascent change in progress in Chilean Spanish, examining whether intervocalic voicing of the phonologically voiceless stop /k/ affects listener judgments along several perceptual scales. Eight brief excerpts of spontaneous speech… read more
2014 The gradience of spirantization: Factors affecting L2 production of intervocalic Spanish [β̞,ð̞,ɣ̞] Spanish in Context 11:3, pp. 402–424 | Article
Most studies to date on the ability of English speakers to produce the Spanish approximants [β̞,ð̞,ɣ̞] have impressionistically looked at the stop-spirant contrast of English-speaking learners of Spanish (e.g. Zampini 1994, Díaz-Campos 2004, Face & Menke 2009), but no known study has empirically… read more