Chapter 5
Revising the canon
Social and stylistic variation of coda (-ɾ) in Buenos Aires Spanish
This study explores phonetic and social variation in coda (-ɾ) production in Buenos Aires Spanish. Although the traditionally described canonical realization of coda /-ɾ/ is occlusion + vocalic element, our results reveal that the “lenited” approximant + vocalic element is the most frequent variant, and that deletion, approximant, trill, and fricative realizations also exist. We found higher rates of lenited forms in informal speech and among younger, male, and working-class speakers. Higher percentages of canonical forms in careful speech and among older, female, and middle-class speakers indicate possible hypercorrection. Finally, we question the “canonical” status of coda (-ɾ) as occlusion + vocalic element, calling for the consideration of variant frequency and context in establishing a baseline description of coda /-ɾ/.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The current study
- 2.1Speakers
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2.2Tasks and recording procedures
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2.3Acoustic analysis
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2.4Statistical analysis
- 3.Results and discussion
- 3.1Global results
- 3.2Age
- 3.3Sex
- 3.4Socioeconomic class
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3.5Speech style
- 4.Conclusions
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