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Publication details [#64918]

Brogan, Franny D. and Mariska A. Bolyanatz. 2018. A sociophonetic account of onset /s/ weakening in Salvadoran Spanish: Instrumental and segmental analyses. Language Variation and Change 30 (2) : 203–230.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | language change | language variation | sex | sociophonetics

Language as a subject

Spanish, Salvadoran

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This inquiry distinguishes the linguistic and social predictors that define onset /s/ weakening in speech data from sociolinguistic interviews with 72 Salvadoran Spanish speakers. It also collates and opposes the elucidative force of instrumental and traditional segmental assays.