Metalinguistic Intuitions and Dominant Language Transfer in Heritage Spanish Syllabification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19524342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Shelton, Michael G Shelton (0000-0002-8215-7188, Occidental College), David Counselman (Ohio Wesleyan University), Nicolás Gutiérrez Palma (0000-0003-2520-6630, Universidad de Jaén) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 288-307 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Heritage Language Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-7076 • E-ISSN: 1550-7076 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.46538/hlj.14.3.4 |
| OpenAlex | W3056856815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
While heritage speakers of Spanish have been shown to differ from monolingual speakers along many morphosyntactic lines, comparatively few studies in heritage linguistics have focused on phonology. To test whether the knowledge of English phonotactics would influence Spanish-English heritage speaker syllabification patterns in Spanish, 29 heritage and 29 monolingual speakers of Spanish completed a paper-and-pencil syllabification task in which they divided 80 Spanish words into syllables. Stimuli were controlled for comparisons between Spanish and English phonotactic constraints. Specific attention was placed on the syllabification of vocalic sequences as diphthongs or hiatus. Based on the distribution of diphthongs in English, and the findings of cognate effects in a similar study by Zárate-Sández (2011), heritage speakers were predicted to break diphthongs into hiatus more often in cognates than noncognates, more often when the English translation of a cognate presented hiatus, more in rising diphthongs than in falling diphthongs, and more often when a rising diphthong contained a palatal rather than velar glide. These effects were all present in heritage speaker results. No significant effects were found for monolingual controls. These findings offer new data to the understudied field of heritage phonology and to the ongoing discussion of dominant language transfer effects
Diphthong · Heritage language · Hiatus · Linguistics · Phonology · Phonotactics · Pronunciation · Syllabification · Vowel · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |