The role of lexical frequency and phonetic context in the weakening of syllablefinal lexical /s/ in the Spanish of Barranquilla, Colombia

The Spanish phoneme /s / has been of particular interest to Hispanic linguists and to Linguistics in general because it is produced in different ways across different varieties of Spanish, depending on linguistic, social, and stylistic factors (c.f. Poplack 1979, Terrell 1975, Cedergren 1973). In many varieties of Spanish, the sound undergoes a process of weakening. Only recently has research has been carried out regarding the role of lexical frequency in s-lenition (Brown 2006, Eddington 2002, Bybee 2002). Furthermore, the research regarding the phonetic context that surrounds /s / and its role (if any) on lenition has been limited to the most general categories. This study focuses on the influence of lexical frequency and phonetic context on s-lenition. The lexical factors examined are lexical frequency, stress, and word length. Lexical frequency was determined by consulting the Real Academia Españolas (RAE) online corpus Corpus Diacrónico del Español (CREA) and recording the raw number of occurrences. The search was confined to the years 1975-2006. The raw numbers were subsequently converted into a relative logistic frequency scale in order to run a binary logistic regression analysis. The study also examines several phonological factors yet to

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