Bidirectionality of language contact
Spanish and Catalan vowels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159390 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annie Helms (0000-0001-9960-3351, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4956 |
| OpenAlex | W3137220952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
The disproportionate number of studies in Barcelona and the Balearic Islands observing Spanish contact effects in Catalan production, rather than Catalan contact effects in Spanish production, is an oversight of bidirectionality and the probabilistic nature of social factors in situations of language contact. Accordingly, the present study analyzes both Catalan and Spanish mid front vowel production data from Barcelona to investigate whether Catalan contact effects occur in Spanish via a process of dissimilation, and whether such effects are strengthened in younger speakers due to the relatively recent implementation of Catalan linguistic policy in the educational and public spheres. The results are suggestive of dissimilation, where phonetic distinctions are maintained between Spanish /e/ and the two Catalan mid front vowels across both F1 and F2. Additionally, analyses of variance across F1 and F2 reveal that Spanish /e/ productions across F1 are more diffuse in younger speakers and Catalan mid front vowels across F2 are less diffuse, providing evidence of reciprocity in contact effects. These results underscore the bidirectional nature of language contact and advocate for the use of variance of F1 and F2 as a metric of phonological contact effects
Catalan · Dissimilation · Language contact · Linguistics · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology
Effects of the Second Language on the First
Pronunciation proficiency in the first and second languages of Korean–English bilinguals
Plasticity in vowel perception and production
Plasticity, Variability and Age in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
A limit on behavioral plasticity in speech perception
Montreal Forced Aligner
A course in phonetics
Weighing factors responsible for the production of the Catalan vowel /ɛ/ versus /e/ contrast in three districts of Barcelona
L2 effects on the perception and production of a native vowel contrast in early bilinguals
The perception and production of language-specific mid-vowel contrasts
Language Policies, Ideologies and Attitudes in Catalonia. Part 1
Linguistic changes in the Catalan spoken in Catalonia under new contact conditions
Interaction of Native- and Second-Language Vowel System(s) in Early and Late Bilinguals
Variationist Sociolinguistics. Change, Observation, Interpretation
Variation in perception and production of mid front vowels in the U.S. Southern Vowel Shift
Variability in vowel production by bilingual speakers
Asymmetry and Directionality in Catalan-Spanish Contact
Going beyond the Native Speaker in Language Teaching
Neurolinguists, beware! The bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person
Language Contact and Contact Languages
The production of "new" and "similar" phones in a foreign language
Normalizing bilingualism
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |