{"title":"Seeds of change","authors":"Christina García","doi":"10.1075/SIC.19012.GAR","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Intervocalic /s/ voicing is of much interest recently in Hispanic Linguistics for two principal reasons: this\n feature has been attested in diverse dialects of Spanish, and it has been shown to correlate in production and perception with\n social factors (Davidson 2014; Chappell\n 2016; García 2019; among others). One finding that often surfaces is that male\n speakers voice more than female speakers, and recent studies consider whether this may be due to physiological differences (File-Muriel, Brown, and Gradoville 2015; Chappell and\n García 2017). The present study examines the interaction of gender, age, and interspeaker variation in the voicing of\n intervocalic /s/ in the speech of 31 natives of Loja, Ecuador. While variationist studies overwhelmingly show women leading change\n in progress, I argue that young men are leading voicing in Lojano Spanish and that this study of a smaller, non-English speaking\n community further elucidates the intricacies of gender and linguistic change.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Spanish in Context","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/SIC.19012.GAR","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Intervocalic /s/ voicing is of much interest recently in Hispanic Linguistics for two principal reasons: this
feature has been attested in diverse dialects of Spanish, and it has been shown to correlate in production and perception with
social factors (Davidson 2014; Chappell
2016; García 2019; among others). One finding that often surfaces is that male
speakers voice more than female speakers, and recent studies consider whether this may be due to physiological differences (File-Muriel, Brown, and Gradoville 2015; Chappell and
García 2017). The present study examines the interaction of gender, age, and interspeaker variation in the voicing of
intervocalic /s/ in the speech of 31 natives of Loja, Ecuador. While variationist studies overwhelmingly show women leading change
in progress, I argue that young men are leading voicing in Lojano Spanish and that this study of a smaller, non-English speaking
community further elucidates the intricacies of gender and linguistic change.
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