Sarah Lease
Biographic Data
| ID | 3530916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Lease |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Lease |
| SIGNATURE | LEASE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4280-6235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Do Changes in a Form’s Ratio of Conditioning During Childhood Coincide with Changes in Children’s Lexical Representations
Child language development unfolds in a piecemeal manner and according to usage patterns. This study tests whether a novel measure of usage that tracks changes in words’ contexts of use during childhood also coincides with piecemeal developmental changes. More specifically, this study examines whether developmental changes in thirty 5- to 15-year-old Spanish-speaking children’s Spanish /b/-initial word pronunciations progress according to how /b/…
Linguistic convergence in U.S.-raised Spanish–English bilinguals’ nominal demonstrative use
This study investigates linguistic convergence in Spanish–English bilinguals’ demonstrative use in English ( this/that ) and Spanish ( este/ese ). Participants completed a task that tested the influence of speaker-referent distance on demonstrative use. Study 1 includes Spanish-speaking monolinguals in Mexico, English-speaking monolinguals in the USA, and Spanish–English bilinguals who were born in the USA or arrived at a young age. Results show …
Contextual frequency effects in children’s phonetic variation
Language variation is demonstrably affected by accumulated experiences reflecting the consequences of the contexts in which words are most frequently used. Yet, these contextual frequency effects are seldom explored in children’s speech. This study uses a corpus-based approach to investigate how 29 Spanish-speaking children, aged 5–15, realize word-initial Spanish /d/ as a function of accumulated experiences with /d/-initial words in articulatory…
A usage-based account of paragogic /e/ in 20th century New Mexican Spanish
This study tests if New Mexican Spanish speakers’ productions of words that variably display paragogic /e/ ( rincón ∼ rincon e ‘corner’) are predictable from their lexical frequency, utterance position, and the frequency with which these words occur in an utterance position that conditions paragoge. In the study, the variable that measures the frequency with which words occur in the conditioning context is referred to as the FCC . The analysis of…
A sociophonetic approach to the acquisition of Spanish rhotics in a bilingual community
This study explores Spanish-English bilingual children’s acquisition of Spanish rhotics. The children’s productions are compared to a group of Spanish-English bilingual adults who represent the Spanish spoken in the same community: Albuquerque, New Mexico. In their narrations of a wordless picture-book, both children and adults produce more non-canonical than canonical variants. Binary logistic regressions run on 817 rhotics produced by 21 childr…
Community Norms and Lexical Frequency Shape U.S. Bilingual Children’s Subject Pronoun Expression
This study explores variable Spanish subject pronoun expression (e.g., yo veo ~ veo ) in Spanish-English speaking children in different regions of the United States (U.S.): Los Angeles (LA), California, and the Tri-Cities area of the state of Washington. We also compare the U.S. children to monolingual Spanish-speaking children in Mexico. Binary logistic regression analyses of 2,064 verb tokens produced by nine U.S. children and nine children in …
Spanish in Albuquerque, New Mexico
This study explores vocalic production and variation in 29 Spanish-English bilingual children and adults from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Linear mixed-effects models analyzed the effects of lexical stress, word position, phonetic context, Spanish use, and lexical frequency on the F1 (height) and F2 (frontedness) values of 2041 /i e a o u/ vowels. Importantly, results show that /u/ fronting is pervasive in both children and adults' speech, but in con…
An Examination of Social, Phonetic, and Lexical Variables on the Lenition of Intervocalic Voiced Stops by Spanish Heritage Speakers
The lenition of Spanish intervocalic voiced stops, commonly grouped as /bdg/, has increasingly been examined within Spanish as a Heritage Language research. This study seeks to identify social, phonetic, and lexical factors that predict the degree of lenition of /bdg/ among heritage speakers of Spanish. We analyzed 850 intervocalic productions of /bdg/ by 20 adult Spanish heritage speakers of various generations in an oral word list production ta…
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An Examination of Social, Phonetic, and Lexical Variables on the Lenition of Intervocalic Voiced Stops by Spanish Heritage Speakers
The lenition of Spanish intervocalic voiced stops, commonly grouped as /bdg/, has increasingly been examined within Spanish as a Heritage Language research. This study seeks to identify social, phonetic, and lexical factors that predict the degree of lenition of /bdg/ among heritage speakers of Spanish. We analyzed 850 intervocalic productions of /bdg/ by 20 adult Spanish heritage speakers of various generations in an oral word list production ta…
A sociophonetic approach to the acquisition of Spanish rhotics in a bilingual community
This study explores Spanish-English bilingual children’s acquisition of Spanish rhotics. The children’s productions are compared to a group of Spanish-English bilingual adults who represent the Spanish spoken in the same community: Albuquerque, New Mexico. In their narrations of a wordless picture-book, both children and adults produce more non-canonical than canonical variants. Binary logistic regressions run on 817 rhotics produced by 21 childr…
Community Norms and Lexical Frequency Shape U.S. Bilingual Children’s Subject Pronoun Expression
This study explores variable Spanish subject pronoun expression (e.g., yo veo ~ veo ) in Spanish-English speaking children in different regions of the United States (U.S.): Los Angeles (LA), California, and the Tri-Cities area of the state of Washington. We also compare the U.S. children to monolingual Spanish-speaking children in Mexico. Binary logistic regression analyses of 2,064 verb tokens produced by nine U.S. children and nine children in …
Spanish in Albuquerque, New Mexico
This study explores vocalic production and variation in 29 Spanish-English bilingual children and adults from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Linear mixed-effects models analyzed the effects of lexical stress, word position, phonetic context, Spanish use, and lexical frequency on the F1 (height) and F2 (frontedness) values of 2041 /i e a o u/ vowels. Importantly, results show that /u/ fronting is pervasive in both children and adults' speech, but in con…
A usage-based account of paragogic /e/ in 20th century New Mexican Spanish
This study tests if New Mexican Spanish speakers’ productions of words that variably display paragogic /e/ ( rincón ∼ rincon e ‘corner’) are predictable from their lexical frequency, utterance position, and the frequency with which these words occur in an utterance position that conditions paragoge. In the study, the variable that measures the frequency with which words occur in the conditioning context is referred to as the FCC . The analysis of…
Contextual frequency effects in children’s phonetic variation
Language variation is demonstrably affected by accumulated experiences reflecting the consequences of the contexts in which words are most frequently used. Yet, these contextual frequency effects are seldom explored in children’s speech. This study uses a corpus-based approach to investigate how 29 Spanish-speaking children, aged 5–15, realize word-initial Spanish /d/ as a function of accumulated experiences with /d/-initial words in articulatory…
Linguistic convergence in U.S.-raised Spanish–English bilinguals’ nominal demonstrative use
This study investigates linguistic convergence in Spanish–English bilinguals’ demonstrative use in English ( this/that ) and Spanish ( este/ese ). Participants completed a task that tested the influence of speaker-referent distance on demonstrative use. Study 1 includes Spanish-speaking monolinguals in Mexico, English-speaking monolinguals in the USA, and Spanish–English bilinguals who were born in the USA or arrived at a young age. Results show …
Do Changes in a Form’s Ratio of Conditioning During Childhood Coincide with Changes in Children’s Lexical Representations
Child language development unfolds in a piecemeal manner and according to usage patterns. This study tests whether a novel measure of usage that tracks changes in words’ contexts of use during childhood also coincides with piecemeal developmental changes. More specifically, this study examines whether developmental changes in thirty 5- to 15-year-old Spanish-speaking children’s Spanish /b/-initial word pronunciations progress according to how /b/…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Word lists by frequency (3 works)