Whitney Chappell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3763875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Whitney Chappell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Whitney |
| FAMILY NAME | Chappell |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPPELL W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to the Special Issue Social Meanings of Language Variation in Spanish
Centering stances, positionalities, and style, the third wave of sociolinguistic study positions individuals at the heart of its analysis
Caribeño or mexicano, profesionista or albañil? Mexican listeners’ evaluations of /s/ aspiration and maintenance in Mexican and Puerto Rican voices
Mexican Spanish is generally recognized as a conservative variety that maintains syllablefinal /s/, while Puerto Rican Spanish consistently weakens it. To explore what social properties are indexed by coda /s/ variants and whether these variants alone can alter evaluations of speaker origin, 75 Mexican listeners participated in a matched-guise test. They listened to recordings of five Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish speakers spliced to include o…
The Role of Lexical Associations and Overgeneralizations in Heritage Spanish Perception
Heritage speakers exhibit a tendency to overgeneralize morphological paradigms in their production, but little is known about their perception, and the present study seeks to better understand how heritage speakers process new information in their home language. To this end, 119 listeners from different language backgrounds evaluated the number of syllables in 70 nonce words, all four-syllable paroxytone nonce words with an initial obstruent + vo…
On Spanglish: Denominator of Linguistic Hybridity or Sociocultural Identity
On Spanglish:Denominator of Linguistic Hybridity or Sociocultural Identity? Whitney Chappell Keywords hybridity/hibridez, identity/identidad, linguistics/lingüística, Spanglish, Spanish/español, United States/Estados Unidos Response 1 to "Lenguas, culturas y sensibilidades en los Estados Unidos: Español y Spanglish en un mundo inglés" In reclaiming negative words intended to subjugate a population and imbuing those words with positive meaning, mi…
Variable production and indexical social meaning: On the potential physiological origin of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish
In several dialects of Spanish, men tend to exhibit more intervocalic /s/ voicing than women, e. g., oso ‘bear’ as [ozo], and this difference may have a physiological basis. File-Muriel et al. (2015, Disentangling the physiological from the socially-learned in gradient, sociophonetic processes: Evidence from s-realization in Barranquilla, Colombia. Unpublished manuscript) found that vocal tract size conditions /s/ aspiration in Barranquilla, and …
Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua: A local vs. global approach
Nicaraguan Spanish is characterized by the reduction of coda /s/ to glottal frication, elision, and glottal constriction, but the latter variant has never been explored in depth. The present study fills this void by analyzing the word-final, intervocalic /s/ environment in sociolinguistic interviews, reading tasks, and image identification tasks conducted with 36 Nicaraguans with the goal of detailing the social patterning of glottal constriction…
Caribeño or mexicano, profesionista or albañil? Mexican listeners’ evaluations of /s/ aspiration and maintenance in Mexican and Puerto Rican voices
Mexican Spanish is generally recognized as a conservative variety that maintains syllablefinal /s/, while Puerto Rican Spanish consistently weakens it. To explore what social properties are indexed by coda /s/ variants and whether these variants alone can alter evaluations of speaker origin, 75 Mexican listeners participated in a matched-guise test. They listened to recordings of five Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish speakers spliced to include o…
Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua: A local vs. global approach
Nicaraguan Spanish is characterized by the reduction of coda /s/ to glottal frication, elision, and glottal constriction, but the latter variant has never been explored in depth. The present study fills this void by analyzing the word-final, intervocalic /s/ environment in sociolinguistic interviews, reading tasks, and image identification tasks conducted with 36 Nicaraguans with the goal of detailing the social patterning of glottal constriction…
Variable production and indexical social meaning: On the potential physiological origin of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish
In several dialects of Spanish, men tend to exhibit more intervocalic /s/ voicing than women, e. g., oso ‘bear’ as [ozo], and this difference may have a physiological basis. File-Muriel et al. (2015, Disentangling the physiological from the socially-learned in gradient, sociophonetic processes: Evidence from s-realization in Barranquilla, Colombia. Unpublished manuscript) found that vocal tract size conditions /s/ aspiration in Barranquilla, and …
The Role of Lexical Associations and Overgeneralizations in Heritage Spanish Perception
Heritage speakers exhibit a tendency to overgeneralize morphological paradigms in their production, but little is known about their perception, and the present study seeks to better understand how heritage speakers process new information in their home language. To this end, 119 listeners from different language backgrounds evaluated the number of syllables in 70 nonce words, all four-syllable paroxytone nonce words with an initial obstruent + vo…
On Spanglish: Denominator of Linguistic Hybridity or Sociocultural Identity
On Spanglish:Denominator of Linguistic Hybridity or Sociocultural Identity? Whitney Chappell Keywords hybridity/hibridez, identity/identidad, linguistics/lingüística, Spanglish, Spanish/español, United States/Estados Unidos Response 1 to "Lenguas, culturas y sensibilidades en los Estados Unidos: Español y Spanglish en un mundo inglés" In reclaiming negative words intended to subjugate a population and imbuing those words with positive meaning, mi…
Caribeño or mexicano, profesionista or albañil? Mexican listeners’ evaluations of /s/ aspiration and maintenance in Mexican and Puerto Rican voices
Mexican Spanish is generally recognized as a conservative variety that maintains syllablefinal /s/, while Puerto Rican Spanish consistently weakens it. To explore what social properties are indexed by coda /s/ variants and whether these variants alone can alter evaluations of speaker origin, 75 Mexican listeners participated in a matched-guise test. They listened to recordings of five Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish speakers spliced to include o…
Introduction to the Special Issue Social Meanings of Language Variation in Spanish
Centering stances, positionalities, and style, the third wave of sociolinguistic study positions individuals at the heart of its analysis
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works)