Ethnicity and phonetic variation in Sheffield English liquids

S Kirkham - Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2017 - cambridge.org
This article reports a study of acoustic phonetic variation between ethnic groups in the
realisation of the British English liquids/l/and/ɹ/. Data are presented from 'Anglo'and …

Sociophonetic analysis of phonemic trill variation in two sub-varieties of Peninsular Spanish

N Henriksen - Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2014 - cambridge.org
In this paper we provide a preliminary characterization of the phonemic trill (ie,/r/) as
produced by twenty-four speakers of northern and central Peninsular Spanish. The acoustic …

Re-conceptualizing affricate variation in Caracas Spanish

M Díaz-Campos, M Cole, M Pollock - Hispania, 2023 - muse.jhu.edu
This sociophonetic study examines affricate variation through a continuous lens using
diachronic data from Caracas Spanish. We investigate the relationship between frication …

Contextual reduction of word-final/l/in Spanish: An EPG study

M Ramsammy - Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2023 - cambridge.org
This article presents data on the contextual reduction of/l/in Spanish. Electropalatography
(EPG) was used to examine realisations of word-final/l/in prevocalic and preconsonantal …

Synchronic evidence of a diachronic change: Voicing and duration in French and Spanish stop-liquid clusters

L Colantoni, J Steele - … Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de …, 2011 - cambridge.org
This article investigates the role that the phonetic parameters of duration and voicing play in
shaping asymmetric patterns of Romance stop-liquid cluster realization. Based on acoustic …

Production of Vowel Reduction by Mexican Learners of English as L2 and Russian as L3

M Barkov, F Santiago, T Peralta - Canadian Journal of Linguistics …, 2022 - cambridge.org
In this study, we examined to what extent cross-linguistic influence is observed in the
production of unstressed vowels in Mexican learners of L2 English and L3 Russian …

Catalan voiced prepalatals: Effects of nonphonetic factors on phonetic variation?

JI Hualde, CD Eager, M Nadeu - Journal of the International …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Central Catalan 'prepalatal'(postalveolar) consonants show a complex phonological
distribution. Whereas in word-internal intervocalic position a four-way opposition obtains …

Spanish rhotics: More evidence of gradience in the System

M Shelton - Hispania, 2013 - muse.jhu.edu
The present study examines the nature of the Spanish rhotics experimentally, investigating
the possibilities that the trill is best understood as deriving from an underlying geminate or …

Introduction: Reflecting on the past, present and future of Hispanic Linguistics

M Gradoville, S McKinnon - Recent Developments in Hispanic …, 2024 - degruyter.com
The chapters published in the present volume were inspired by earlier versions of papers
presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (henceforth, HLS), held virtually by …

Speaking Race or Racialized Speaking: Evidence from Perceptions of Lateral Variants by Puerto Rican Listeners

JE Ramos, C Shea - Hispania, 2023 - muse.jhu.edu
In this study we show that the perception of lateral variants by Puerto Rican listeners
changes according to who the listener believes is speaking. Puerto Rican listeners heard …