New Mexican Spanish
Insight into the Variable Reduction of "La ehe inihial" (/s)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7787939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric L Brown (0000-0003-2824-8887, corresponding author), Esther L Brown |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 813 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20063211 |
| OpenAlex | W1993556933 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 4 |
For close to a century, a noted feature of the Spanish of New Mexico has been the variable aspiration and deletion of syllable-initial /s/ (Espinosa 1909), yet no empirical investigations have been undertaken to study this process within this variety of Spanish in the United States. In fact, syllable-initial /s/ world-wide is rarely quantified, with few exceptions (e.g., Garcia and Talion 1995). This relative lack of empirical analysis means that there is much to be learned from quantitative analysis of this variable phonological reductive process. The present study examines the exact nature of syllable-initial /s/ reduction using quantitative methods to challenge the notions that syllable-initial /s-/ reduction stems directly from syllable-final /-s/ reduction, and that intervocalic /s-/ reduction is found only in a limited set of lexemes
Geometry · Reduction (mathematics) · Variable (mathematics) · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
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Variation in Spanish /s
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |