A sociophonetic approach to the acquisition of Spanish rhotics in a bilingual community

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ID22159334
AuthorsSarah Lease (0000-0002-4280-6235), Mariana Marchesi (0000-0002-7281-4842)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue1
Pages5231
Publication date2022-05-05
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689
PublisherLinguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5231
OpenAlexW4229032902
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited13

This study explores Spanish-English bilingual children’s acquisition of Spanish rhotics. The children’s productions are compared to a group of Spanish-English bilingual adults who represent the Spanish spoken in the same community: Albuquerque, New Mexico. In their narrations of a wordless picture-book, both children and adults produce more non-canonical than canonical variants. Binary logistic regressions run on 817 rhotics produced by 21 children, ages 3-9-years-old, and 6 adults demonstrate that non-canonical variants, instead of canonical variants are more likely to occur as Spanish use increases and in word medial position. The results point towards the propagation of a working change in Spanish rhotics that sees both articulatory and sociolinguistic motivations. Implications for research on phonetic-phonological development are also discussed

Linguistics · Non canonical · Phonological development · Phonology · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology

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