Heritage Spanish in Brussels
Case study on coda /s/ production by Andalusian women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21180073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Pérez Rodríguez (0009-0006-8166-0431, University of New Brunswick), An Vande Casteele (0000-0001-7966-2354, University of New Brunswick), Rik Vosters (0000-0002-5985-6933, University of New Brunswick) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 545-571 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Spanish in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1571-0718 • E-ISSN: 1571-0726 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/sic.24020.per |
| OpenAlex | W4413251277 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 49 |
This exploratory study investigates the evolution of coda /s/ weakening in Andalusian Spanish as a heritage language spoken in Brussels. Ongoing change promoted by dialect contact with other Spanish varieties was assessed on speech data retrieved via interviews with first- and second-generation Andalusian immigrants in the city. Their coda /s/ production was analyzed in terms of perceptual categorization, acoustic evidence of frication, and duration. A contrastive analysis throughout these parameters confirmed that, within the sample studied, second-generation speakers weaken coda /s/ considerably less than speakers from the first generation, suggesting a shift from traditional Andalusian speech. These results highlight the importance of sociolinguistic approaches for a thorough understanding of the subtle changes that languages undergo in diasporic contexts
Art · Categorization · Coda · Heritage language · Immigration · Linguistics · Literature · Perception · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |