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On the Gradient Lenition of Spanish Voiced Obstruents: A Look at Onset Clusters 西班牙语浊音障碍的梯度变化:从起音簇看

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-08-07 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2020-2036

Katerina A. Tetzloff

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Frontmatter

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-06 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2020-frontmatter1

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The role of information structure in the instantiation of objects: Evidence from Amazonian Spanish 信息结构在对象实例化中的作用:来自亚马逊西班牙语的证据

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-22 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2020-2028

Rosa Vallejos, Evelyn Fernández-Lizárraga, Haley Patterson

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The não interpolation in Classical and early Modern European Portuguese and the mapping between syntactic and phonological structures: An empirical study 古典和近代早期欧洲葡萄牙语的n<e:1>内插及其句法和音系结构的映射:一个实证研究

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-22 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2020-2023

M. Nkollo, A. Fiéis

{"title":"The não interpolation in Classical and early Modern European Portuguese and the mapping between syntactic and phonological structures: An empirical study","authors":"M. Nkollo, A. Fiéis","doi":"10.1515/shll-2020-2023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2020-2023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The central topic of the paper is clitic-verb non-adjacency (interpolation) in Classical and early Modern European Portuguese (EP). Throughout that period, the negative marker não was the only expression likely to disrupt the continuity of clitic-verb sequences. The aims of the study are twofold. First, previous assumptions on the syntax of this pattern are matched against data retrieved from the texts stored in the Biblioteca Nacional Digital. The present analysis demonstrates, first, that clitic-verb adjacency and non-adjacency had divergent distributions depending on whether they occurred in obligatory proclisis contexts or in X-V-cl/X-cl-V variation ones. Whereas interpolation was the default choice in the former, clitic-verb adjacency was prevailing in the latter in the period under discussion. The second aim is to account for the overrepresentation, underpinned by corpus data, of 3rd person accusative pronouns in clauses with interpolation. In previous works, the origin of clitic-verb non-adjacency was couched either in semantic terms (the contribution of não to the meaning of the VP) or in terms of clitic movement and increasing constraints on the status of Neg (Neg and clitic are both assumed to be affixes). In the present paper, interpolation is shown to have had an interface nature, with phonological factors playing a central role. The discontinuity of clitic-Verb sequences is thought to have helped speakers to get rid of the affixal attachment of the o, a, os, as series to the preceding non-verbal sound material (nasal diphthongs in não, quem, ninguém, etc, coercing preverbal pronouns into taking a nasal onset quem no, não no, etc.). As a consequence, in present day standard EP, clitic-specific allomorphy has become earmarked for enclisis.","PeriodicalId":126470,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134217159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cerca mío/a or cerca de mí ? A variationist analysis of Spanish locative + possessive on Twitter Cerca mío/a还是Cerca de mí ?推特上西班牙语定位格+所有格的变异分析

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-22 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2019-2017

M. Hoff

{"title":"Cerca mío/a or cerca de mí ? A variationist analysis of Spanish locative + possessive on Twitter","authors":"M. Hoff","doi":"10.1515/shll-2019-2017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2019-2017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Spanish locative adverbs may be followed by either a prepositional phrase (PP) (e.g. cerca de mí ‘close to/(of) me’) or, nonstandardly, a tonic possessive (TP) (e.g. cerca mío ‘lit. close mine’). Some also take feminine forms (e.g. cerca mía, detrás mía). Using R, I analyze 16,809 tweets representing 14 locatives from Buenos Aires, Madrid, and Mexico City and demonstrate that, although dialects and individual locatives vary widely in their rates of TP use, the person, number, and animacy of the possessor significantly predict PP/TP selection across varieties. Also, feminine possessives are used almost exclusively in Spain, and the seemingly feminine morphology of locatives ending in –a (e.g. encima) and subsequent extension to other locatives via analogy is the most plausible explanation for their use. Further evidence of analogy is TP use in non-locative contexts (e.g. Arg. pensás mío ‘you think of me,’ Sp. enamorado tuyo/a ‘in love with you’). These findings illuminate the interactions between avoidance of ambiguity, form-based analogy, and speakers’ conceptualization of possession. My findings regarding animacy, which find parallels in research on English dative and genitive constructions, highlight the utility of both cross-linguistic and cross-constructional comparisons in analyzing morphosyntactic variation.","PeriodicalId":126470,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128256155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The intonation of broad focus declaratives in Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Findings from two elicitation tasks 非裔秘鲁人西班牙语大焦点陈述句的语调:两个启发任务的结果

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-22 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2020-2024

E. Fenton, Amy Bustin, Antje Muntendam

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Rethinking the phonological process of /s/ voicing assimilation in Spanish: An acoustic comparison of three regional varieties 再思考西班牙语/s/发音同化的音韵过程:三个地区变体的声学比较

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-22 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2020-2027

Beatriz Sedó, Lauren B. Schmidt, Erik W. Willis

{"title":"Rethinking the phonological process of /s/ voicing assimilation in Spanish: An acoustic comparison of three regional varieties","authors":"Beatriz Sedó, Lauren B. Schmidt, Erik W. Willis","doi":"10.1515/shll-2020-2027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2020-2027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Spanish is described as having an /s/ regressive voicing assimilation process by which the sibilant is voiced when followed by a voiced consonant. However, experimental studies documenting the nature of the process – including variation in its realization across speech varieties – are limited. The current study presents an acoustic analysis of the phonetic nature of the process, including an analysis of the linguistic and social factors which influence voicing of the /s/. Using an identical controlled phrase elicitation task, rates and location of voicing within the /s/ segment were compared across three varieties of Spanish: Mexican Spanish (Mexico City) and two Peninsular varieties (León and Vitoria). Different voicing rates and different linguistic voicing predictors were found across dialects. The data suggest that /s/ voicing before a voiced consonant is far from a categorical process in Spanish, with variable rates of application between 43% and 63%. We propose that, based on the data, /s/ voicing in Spanish is, in fact, better understood as a progressive voicing process (i. e. continuation of voicing from the previous vowel), and that the linguistic factors that condition voicing can be explained in part through articulatory and aerodynamic mechanisms. We also discuss the phonetics and phonology of the process.","PeriodicalId":126470,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129839282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Acquiring variable commands at home and abroad: Examining optatives and imperatives in L1 and L2 Spanish 习得国内外不同的命令:考察母语和第二语言西班牙语的选语和祈使句

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-22 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2020-2025

Farrah A. Neumann, Matthew Kanwit

{"title":"Acquiring variable commands at home and abroad: Examining optatives and imperatives in L1 and L2 Spanish","authors":"Farrah A. Neumann, Matthew Kanwit","doi":"10.1515/shll-2020-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2020-2025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since many linguistic structures are variable (i. e. conveyed by multiple forms), building a second-language grammar critically involves developing sociolinguistic competence (Canale and Swain. 1980. Theoretical bases of communicative approaches to second language teaching and testing. Applied Linguistics 1(1). 1–47), including knowledge of contexts in which to use one form over another (Bayley and Langman. 2004. Variation in the group and the individual: Evidence from second language acquisition. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 42(4). 303–318). Consequently, researchers interested in such competence have increasingly analyzed the study-abroad context to gauge learners’ ability to approximate local norms following a stay abroad, due to the quality and quantity of input to which learners may gain access (Lafford. 2006. The effects of study abroad vs. classroom contexts on Spanish SLA: Old assumptions, new insights and future research directions. In Carol Klee & Timothy Face (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 7th conference on the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as first and second languages, 1–25. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project). Nevertheless, the present study is the first to examine native or learner variation between imperative (e. g. ven ‘come’) and optative Spanish commands (e. g. que vengas ‘come’). We first performed a corpus analysis to determine the linguistic factors to manipulate in a contextualized task, which elicited commands from learners before and after four weeks abroad in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Their overall rates of selection and predictive factors were compared to local native speakers (NSs) and a control group of at-home learners. Results revealed that the abroad learners more closely approached NS rates of selection following the stay abroad. Nonetheless, for both learner groups conditioning by independent variables only partially approximated the NS system, which was more complex than previously suggested.","PeriodicalId":126470,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121724181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-09-11 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2019-frontmatter2

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Sintaxis y pragmática del ser como focalizador y las seudohendidas en Colombia (Barranquilla) 哥伦比亚(巴兰基利亚)存在作为焦点和伪分裂的句法和语用学

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/shll-2019-2016

María Fernanda Escalante Vergara, Luis A. Ortiz-López

{"title":"Sintaxis y pragmática del ser como focalizador y las seudohendidas en Colombia (Barranquilla)","authors":"María Fernanda Escalante Vergara, Luis A. Ortiz-López","doi":"10.1515/shll-2019-2016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2019-2016","url":null,"abstract":"Resumen Las cláusulas seudohendidas (SH) y con ser como focalizador (SF) se han estudiado en el español de Colombia, Venezuela, la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, desde perspectivas dialectales, sociolingüísticas y formalistas. A pesar de que el español de Colombia y de Venezuela son referentes obligatorios en los trabajos sobre el SF, son escasas las investigaciones en torno al Caribe colombiano. Este estudio investiga y analiza patrones de variación sintáctica, pragmática, semántica y social que condicionan el uso de las SF y las SH en el español de Barranquilla, Colombia, mediante datos semi-naturales de PRESEEA-Barranquilla y experimentales, basados en juicios de aceptabilidad perceptiva. Los hallazgos evidencian una aceptabilidad y uso predominante de SF frente a SH. Las SF, contrario a las propuestas previas, son favorecidas en contextos sin contraste explícito. El alto predominio de las SF frente las SH está restringido en algún grado por factores sintácticos [tipos de constituyentes], pragmáticos [-contrastivo /+contrastivo] y semánticos [clase semántica de los verbos], pero con escasa influencia social. El SF se ha ido generalizando en el español de Barranquilla a través de restricciones poco aceptadas en otras variedades colombianas, y con muy poco condicionamiento o estigma social.","PeriodicalId":126470,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics","volume":"366 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120896005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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