Brandon Baird
Biographic Data
| ID | 3845175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon Baird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon |
| FAMILY NAME | Baird |
| SIGNATURE | BAIRD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0234-6438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The status of /f/ in Mayan-accented Spanish
Although scant, the previous research on Guatemalan Spanish has suggested that both /f/ lenition, /f/ → [h], and /f/ fortition, /f/ → [p], are more common among Mayan-Spanish bilinguals with lower levels of education as /f/ is not present in any Mayan language. The present study analyzes 1,430 tokens of /f/ from sociolinguistic interviews in Spanish from 40 bilinguals of Spanish and the Mayan language K’iche’ according to both linguistic and extr…
Social perceptions of /f/ fortition in Guatemalan Spanish
Research on Guatemalan Spanish has increasingly shown the effects of contact with Mayan languages. However, whereas most studies have focused on the structural outcomes of Spanish-Mayan contact, fewer studies have analyzed how native Guatemalans socially perceive these features and, by extension, those who employ them. This study presents an analysis of one contact feature of Guatemalan Spanish: the fortition of the voiceless labiodental fricativ…
Clothing, Gender, and Sociophonetic Perceptions of Mayan-Accented Spanish in Guatemala
Perceptual sociophonetic work on Guatemalan Spanish has demonstrated that listeners are more likely to link male voices with traditional Maya clothing, the traje típico, when their speech includes features of Mayan-accented Spanish. However, as Maya women are more likely than men to wear the traje típico, this matched-guise study investigates native Guatemalans' perceptions of Mayan-accented Spanish produced by female voices. The results demonstr…
Bilingual language dominance and contrastive focus marking
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study examines prosodic contrastive focus marking in the Spanish of 24 simultaneous K’ichee’-Spanish bilinguals via the following research questions: (1) How do K’ichee’-Spanish bilinguals prosodically mark contrastive focus in Spanish? (2) Is there evidence of K’ichee’ influence in Spanish prosody and is this possible K’ichee’ influence correlated with the language dominance of the bilinguals?…
Ciudadano maya 100
Este artículo presenta una investigación del estado actual del bilingüismo k'iche'-español y las actitudes hacia ello en dos municipios guatemaltecos: uno ubicado cerca de un centro urbano de habla hispana y otro más alejado. El análisis presentado aquí es el resultado de una encuesta y entrevistas con 162 bilingües de estos municipios y demuestra patrones distintos hacia el uso de cada lengua en cada municipio. Además, los resultados de ambos mu…
Perceptions of Lexically Specific Phonology Switches on Spanish-Origin Loanwords in American English
This matched-guise study investigates not only the perceptions of Spanish-accented English, but also of Lexically Specific Phonology Switches (LSPS) on loanwords of Spanish origin (e.g., taco) within a larger, English-phonology utterance. Listeners rated guises, along with control guises with English phonology throughout, for character traits and also answered open-ended questions about the appearance and activities of the guise speakers. The res…
Syntactic and Prosodic Contrastive Focus Marking in K'ichee
The present study analyses the syntax and prosody of contrastive focus in K'ichee' according to the bilingual language dominance of the speakers. Results of a production task reveal that although speakers use all of the syntactic constructions mentioned in the literature, speakers that are less dominant in K'ichee' use in situ constructions at a higher rate. The results of the acoustic analysis show that, in contrast to work on other Mayan langua…
Phonology and Phonetics
The phonology of Mayan languages is well known both descriptively and historically. To begin the discussion of the sound systems of Mayan languages, it is useful to consider the sound inventory that has been reconstructed for Proto-Mayan ( Campbell and Kaufman 1985 :190; Campbell, this volume, slightly modified in terms of placement of *h and *χ). International Phonetic Alphabet symbols are used here and elsewhere in this chapter. The practical o…
Perceptions of Lexically Specific Phonology Switches on Spanish-Origin Loanwords in American English
This matched-guise study investigates not only the perceptions of Spanish-accented English, but also of Lexically Specific Phonology Switches (LSPS) on loanwords of Spanish origin (e.g., taco) within a larger, English-phonology utterance. Listeners rated guises, along with control guises with English phonology throughout, for character traits and also answered open-ended questions about the appearance and activities of the guise speakers. The res…
Ciudadano maya 100
Este artículo presenta una investigación del estado actual del bilingüismo k'iche'-español y las actitudes hacia ello en dos municipios guatemaltecos: uno ubicado cerca de un centro urbano de habla hispana y otro más alejado. El análisis presentado aquí es el resultado de una encuesta y entrevistas con 162 bilingües de estos municipios y demuestra patrones distintos hacia el uso de cada lengua en cada municipio. Además, los resultados de ambos mu…
Syntactic and Prosodic Contrastive Focus Marking in K'ichee
The present study analyses the syntax and prosody of contrastive focus in K'ichee' according to the bilingual language dominance of the speakers. Results of a production task reveal that although speakers use all of the syntactic constructions mentioned in the literature, speakers that are less dominant in K'ichee' use in situ constructions at a higher rate. The results of the acoustic analysis show that, in contrast to work on other Mayan langua…
Phonology and Phonetics
The phonology of Mayan languages is well known both descriptively and historically. To begin the discussion of the sound systems of Mayan languages, it is useful to consider the sound inventory that has been reconstructed for Proto-Mayan ( Campbell and Kaufman 1985 :190; Campbell, this volume, slightly modified in terms of placement of *h and *χ). International Phonetic Alphabet symbols are used here and elsewhere in this chapter. The practical o…
Perceptions of Lexically Specific Phonology Switches on Spanish-Origin Loanwords in American English
This matched-guise study investigates not only the perceptions of Spanish-accented English, but also of Lexically Specific Phonology Switches (LSPS) on loanwords of Spanish origin (e.g., taco) within a larger, English-phonology utterance. Listeners rated guises, along with control guises with English phonology throughout, for character traits and also answered open-ended questions about the appearance and activities of the guise speakers. The res…
Syntactic and Prosodic Contrastive Focus Marking in K'ichee
The present study analyses the syntax and prosody of contrastive focus in K'ichee' according to the bilingual language dominance of the speakers. Results of a production task reveal that although speakers use all of the syntactic constructions mentioned in the literature, speakers that are less dominant in K'ichee' use in situ constructions at a higher rate. The results of the acoustic analysis show that, in contrast to work on other Mayan langua…
Ciudadano maya 100
Este artículo presenta una investigación del estado actual del bilingüismo k'iche'-español y las actitudes hacia ello en dos municipios guatemaltecos: uno ubicado cerca de un centro urbano de habla hispana y otro más alejado. El análisis presentado aquí es el resultado de una encuesta y entrevistas con 162 bilingües de estos municipios y demuestra patrones distintos hacia el uso de cada lengua en cada municipio. Además, los resultados de ambos mu…
Bilingual language dominance and contrastive focus marking
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study examines prosodic contrastive focus marking in the Spanish of 24 simultaneous K’ichee’-Spanish bilinguals via the following research questions: (1) How do K’ichee’-Spanish bilinguals prosodically mark contrastive focus in Spanish? (2) Is there evidence of K’ichee’ influence in Spanish prosody and is this possible K’ichee’ influence correlated with the language dominance of the bilinguals?…
Social perceptions of /f/ fortition in Guatemalan Spanish
Research on Guatemalan Spanish has increasingly shown the effects of contact with Mayan languages. However, whereas most studies have focused on the structural outcomes of Spanish-Mayan contact, fewer studies have analyzed how native Guatemalans socially perceive these features and, by extension, those who employ them. This study presents an analysis of one contact feature of Guatemalan Spanish: the fortition of the voiceless labiodental fricativ…
Clothing, Gender, and Sociophonetic Perceptions of Mayan-Accented Spanish in Guatemala
Perceptual sociophonetic work on Guatemalan Spanish has demonstrated that listeners are more likely to link male voices with traditional Maya clothing, the traje típico, when their speech includes features of Mayan-accented Spanish. However, as Maya women are more likely than men to wear the traje típico, this matched-guise study investigates native Guatemalans' perceptions of Mayan-accented Spanish produced by female voices. The results demonstr…
The status of /f/ in Mayan-accented Spanish
Although scant, the previous research on Guatemalan Spanish has suggested that both /f/ lenition, /f/ → [h], and /f/ fortition, /f/ → [p], are more common among Mayan-Spanish bilinguals with lower levels of education as /f/ is not present in any Mayan language. The present study analyzes 1,430 tokens of /f/ from sociolinguistic interviews in Spanish from 40 bilinguals of Spanish and the Mayan language K’iche’ according to both linguistic and extr…
Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Maya (3 works) · Perception (3 works)