Acoustic Variability of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ in Spanish

A Pilot Study

Bibliographic Data

ID7903810
AuthorsBrianna Butera (0000-0002-5254-1613)
Year2023
Volume8
Issue3
Pages224
Publication date2023-09-21
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages8030224
OpenAlexW4386928987
LanguageEN
References cited15

Propelled by existing research on stop consonant variability in Spanish, this pilot study provides a preliminary acoustic analysis of stop consonant lenition exhibited by speakers of six different varieties of Spanish in Latin America and Spain to explore the gradient acoustic variability in the production of /ptk/ and /bdɡ/ among speakers of different Spanish varieties. Using the acoustic correlate of relative intensity, this analysis considers the effect of various linguistic factors (phoneme, lexical stress, point of articulation, sonority) as well as the extralinguistic factor of Spanish variety on the production of stop consonants in initial, intervocalic position. Results display a higher degree of weakening among speakers of Peninsular and Insular varieties of Spanish compared with those of Latin-American varieties such as Colombian, Mexican, and Peruvian. These exploratory data support the gradient nature of consonant lenition and provide a baseline for future research on stop consonant variability across the Spanish-speaking world

Articulation (sociology · Consonant · Consonant cluster · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Political science · Sonority hierarchy · Variety (cybernetics · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis · Artificial Intelligence

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