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Abstract
This study provides a systematic account of the occurrence of interdental /s/ in Salvadoran Spanish and explores
speakers’ attitudes toward its use.
Specifically, it examines the linguistic, social, and stylistic contexts in which this understudied variant
occurs, and it describes how the speakers construct meaning through it despite being a stigmatized variant. It was found that this
variant is more likely to be observed in syllable-onset position both word-medially and initially. Additionally, it is more likely
to be observed in casual style in the youngest and oldest age groups and it is less likely observed in the speech of
professionals. There are indications that this variant is associated with an age-grading phenomena, which is also indicative of
stable variation. The present work fills an almost a 30+ year old gap left by previous studies that only briefly touched upon this
variant.
期刊介绍:
Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, European Reference Index for the Humanities, Sociological abstracts, INIST, Linguistic Bibliography, Scopus