Warren Chappell
Biographic Data
| ID | 996358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren Chappell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren |
| FAMILY NAME | Chappell |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPPELL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7600-7549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Covid-19 Oral Historias Project: Amplifying the Lived Experiences of San Antonio’s Hispanic Community
Through a series of over 100 bilingual interviews with Hispanic San Antonians, the COVID-19 Oral Historias Project documents the Latino/a/e community’s experiences through the pandemic by sharing individual stories, amplifying local voices, and creating compassion in a fragmented time. The present article documents the project itself, contextualizing its creation, detailing its methodology, highlighting the most common themes across interviews, a…
Language Attitudes and Stereotypes Condition the Processing of Contact-Induced Linguistic Variants
This study examines the effect of language attitudes and stereotypes on vowel perceptions by two groups of listeners from Asturias, Spain that differ in their relationship with the languages present in their communities: Spanish, the national majority language, and Asturian, the regional minority language. The responses of 165 participants from the Nalón Valley (a mining area in the region) were compared with those of 156 listeners from Gijón (th…
Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender
In this article, we explore how raciolinguistic parody functions in a society that hegemonically denies racial divisions. Through an analysis of Puerto Rican comedian Natalia Lugo's YouTube portrayals of her character, Francheska the Yal 'welfare queen,' we argue that covert racialization operates through a semiotics of respectability, whereby disreputable forms of femininity, class expression, and nonstandard language are co-indexical with the y…
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
Do Learners Connect Sociophonetic Variation With Regional and Social Characteristics: The Case of L2 Perception of Spanish Aspiration
Learners must develop the ability to perceive linguistic and social meaning in their second language (L2) to interact effectively, but relatively little is known about how learners link social meaning to a single phonetic variable. Using a matched-guise test targeting coda /s/ (realized as [s] or debuccalized [h]), we explore whether L2 Spanish learners identify native speakers’ social characteristics based on phonetic variants. Our results indic…
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 …
On the social perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish
To decipher for the first time what, if any, social meaning is indexed by nonstandard intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rica, such as [paza] for pasa ‘raisin’, the present study digitally manipulates 12 utterances from six Costa Rican speakers to vary only in intervocalic [s] versus [z]. Based on 106 listeners’ responses to these stimuli, I find that intervocalic [z] indexes a lower social status for all speakers but also yields higher ratings of…
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…
American Folk Tales and Songs: A Treasury of Lively Old-Time English-American Lore
On the social perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish
To decipher for the first time what, if any, social meaning is indexed by nonstandard intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rica, such as [paza] for pasa ‘raisin’, the present study digitally manipulates 12 utterances from six Costa Rican speakers to vary only in intervocalic [s] versus [z]. Based on 106 listeners’ responses to these stimuli, I find that intervocalic [z] indexes a lower social status for all speakers but also yields higher ratings of…
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…
Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender
In this article, we explore how raciolinguistic parody functions in a society that hegemonically denies racial divisions. Through an analysis of Puerto Rican comedian Natalia Lugo's YouTube portrayals of her character, Francheska the Yal 'welfare queen,' we argue that covert racialization operates through a semiotics of respectability, whereby disreputable forms of femininity, class expression, and nonstandard language are co-indexical with the y…
American Folk Tales and Songs: A Treasury of Lively Old-Time English-American Lore
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…
On the social perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish
To decipher for the first time what, if any, social meaning is indexed by nonstandard intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rica, such as [paza] for pasa ‘raisin’, the present study digitally manipulates 12 utterances from six Costa Rican speakers to vary only in intervocalic [s] versus [z]. Based on 106 listeners’ responses to these stimuli, I find that intervocalic [z] indexes a lower social status for all speakers but also yields higher ratings of…
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…
Do Learners Connect Sociophonetic Variation With Regional and Social Characteristics: The Case of L2 Perception of Spanish Aspiration
Learners must develop the ability to perceive linguistic and social meaning in their second language (L2) to interact effectively, but relatively little is known about how learners link social meaning to a single phonetic variable. Using a matched-guise test targeting coda /s/ (realized as [s] or debuccalized [h]), we explore whether L2 Spanish learners identify native speakers’ social characteristics based on phonetic variants. Our results indic…
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
Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender
In this article, we explore how raciolinguistic parody functions in a society that hegemonically denies racial divisions. Through an analysis of Puerto Rican comedian Natalia Lugo's YouTube portrayals of her character, Francheska the Yal 'welfare queen,' we argue that covert racialization operates through a semiotics of respectability, whereby disreputable forms of femininity, class expression, and nonstandard language are co-indexical with the y…
Covid-19 Oral Historias Project: Amplifying the Lived Experiences of San Antonio’s Hispanic Community
Through a series of over 100 bilingual interviews with Hispanic San Antonians, the COVID-19 Oral Historias Project documents the Latino/a/e community’s experiences through the pandemic by sharing individual stories, amplifying local voices, and creating compassion in a fragmented time. The present article documents the project itself, contextualizing its creation, detailing its methodology, highlighting the most common themes across interviews, a…
Language Attitudes and Stereotypes Condition the Processing of Contact-Induced Linguistic Variants
This study examines the effect of language attitudes and stereotypes on vowel perceptions by two groups of listeners from Asturias, Spain that differ in their relationship with the languages present in their communities: Spanish, the national majority language, and Asturian, the regional minority language. The responses of 165 participants from the Nalón Valley (a mining area in the region) were compared with those of 156 listeners from Gijón (th…
Linguistics (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Perception (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works)