Using social media as a source of analysable material in phonetics and phonology – lenition in Spanish

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ID21226628
AuthorsKarolina Broś (0000-0001-6701-9257, University of Warsaw, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume9
Issues4
Pages349-360
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics Vanguard (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2199-174X • E-ISSN: 2199-174X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/lingvan-2021-0153
OpenAlexW4362661461
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited19

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that alternative methods of data collection are necessary to continue working in certain fields of linguistics. This is a challenge for (socio)phoneticians and phonologists who have to rely on good quality sound but cannot do fieldwork or gather recordings in a traditional manner. In this paper, I show that audio recordings made via social media can help alleviate this problem. To this end, I compared samples from five speakers of dialectal Spanish recorded in a laboratory setting and via a social media application (WhatsApp). The analysis of temporal and spectral characteristics of consonants in postvocalic position shows that recordings made via social media can be successfully used for at least some types of sociophonetic analysis. They also provide some additional advantages for researchers: ease of data collection, potentially large speech corpora, and access to authentic, naturalistic speech which is uninhibited by laboratory conditions or the presence of a researcher and a professional recording device

Linguistic analysis · Linguistics · Phonetics · Phonology · Social media · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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