Heritage Spanish in Brussels

Case study on coda /s/ production by Andalusian women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21180073
AutoresSamantha Pérez Rodríguez (0009-0006-8166-0431, University of New Brunswick), An Vande Casteele (0000-0001-7966-2354, University of New Brunswick), Rik Vosters (0000-0002-5985-6933, University of New Brunswick)
Año2025
Volumen22
Número3
Páginas545-571
Fecha de publicación2025-12-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSpanish in Context (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1571-0718 • E-ISSN: 1571-0726
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sic.24020.per
OpenAlexW4413251277
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas49

This exploratory study investigates the evolution of coda /s/ weakening in Andalusian Spanish as a heritage language spoken in Brussels. Ongoing change promoted by dialect contact with other Spanish varieties was assessed on speech data retrieved via interviews with first- and second-generation Andalusian immigrants in the city. Their coda /s/ production was analyzed in terms of perceptual categorization, acoustic evidence of frication, and duration. A contrastive analysis throughout these parameters confirmed that, within the sample studied, second-generation speakers weaken coda /s/ considerably less than speakers from the first generation, suggesting a shift from traditional Andalusian speech. These results highlight the importance of sociolinguistic approaches for a thorough understanding of the subtle changes that languages undergo in diasporic contexts

Art · Categorization · Coda · Heritage language · Immigration · Linguistics · Literature · Perception · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies