{"title":"Convergence patterns in the city of Seville","authors":"Juana Santana Marrero","doi":"10.1075/sic.20003.san","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.20003.san","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Research carried out over the past few years in several Andalusian cities has revealed the processes of convergence towards conservative realisations that are occurring among the allophones of the phoneme /θs/. This time, using the Seville PRESEEA corpus, we have analysed the frequency of the seseante and dento-interdental pronunciation patterns that coexist in this city, and we have correlated them with linguistic, social, and individual parameters. Our data showed that this variation process was mainly influenced by closeness of [s] and [θ] in the immediate phonetic context, and by the educational attainment level, the age, and the sex of the respondents. The analysis per surveyed subjects indicated that most of them combined both variants.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41345208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A case for velarization of Spanish word-internal coda stops as hypercorrection","authors":"Silvina Bongiovanni","doi":"10.1075/sic.19030.bon","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.19030.bon","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In many dialects of Spanish, a word such as aceptar /aseptáɾ/ ‘to accept’ may be variably produced as [asektáɾ]. Previous research has shown that velarization patterns are the result of speakers’ sensitivity to phonotactic distributions (Brown 2006; Bongiovanni 2022). This study examines a different result of pattern generalization: hypercorrection. The production of bilabial word-internal coda stops was analyzed in a corpus of sociolinguistic interviews from Mérida, Venezuela. Variation between retained, deleted and velarized variants ([aseptáɾ], [asetáɾ] and [asektáɾ]) is constrained primarily by age and education. While velarization was the preferred variant among older speakers regardless of their educational attainment status, for the younger cohort it was speakers in the lower educational attainment group who favored it. These linguistic patterns reflect known societal changes regarding access to education in Venezuela (and therefore, contact with the standard variety) and show that under the pressure of a prescriptive rule, speakers default to a non-normative generalized pattern.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41362175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¿A poco así dices? Biased interrogatives with ¿A poco (no)…? in Mexican Spanish","authors":"Asela Reig Alamillo","doi":"10.1075/sic.19032.ala","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.19032.ala","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article offers a characterization of the biased polar interrogative with ¿a poco (no)?, frequent in Mexican Spanish. This characterization is based on the system proposed by Sudo (2013) and shows that Sudo’s two notions of epistemic bias and evidential bias are necessary and sufficient to characterize the conventional non-propositional meaning associated with the three kinds of a poco questions in Mexican Spanish: the a poco positive polarity question codes a negative epistemic bias and a [+positive] or [+negative] evidential bias; the a poco negative polarity question with inside negation codes a positive epistemic bias and a [+negative] evidential bias; and the a poco negative polarity question with outside negation codes a positive epistemic bias and a [−negative] evidential bias. Lastly, the article discusses to what extent these characterizations are also compatible with the interactional uses of the short questions ¿a poco? and ¿a poco no?\u0000","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43974923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La voz como reacción emocional","authors":"Xose A. Padilla","doi":"10.1075/sic.20029.pad","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.20029.pad","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Nuestra habilidad para entender las emociones de los demás en el habla es clave para conseguir una interacción\u0000 social exitosa. Estudios procedentes de varias disciplinas apuntan que la prosodia es un elemento fundamental para que este éxito\u0000 se produzca. Partiendo de la premisa de que la emoción es principalmente una reacción o respuesta a un estímulo previo, en este\u0000 trabajo hemos analizado si es posible establecer una relación entre el enunciado que provoca la reacción emocional (detonador) y\u0000 la respuesta emocional propiamente dicha, observando el comportamiento de las magnitudes acústicas (F0, dB y VEL) en el marco de\u0000 la conversación coloquial. Para ello hemos llevado a cabo dos tipos de análisis: (a) la reacción sintagmática, entendida como la\u0000 reacción a lo anterior (sea a la intervención de un hablante previo o sea a la parte no emocional de la intervención de un mismo\u0000 hablante); y (b) la reacción paradigmática, esto es, qué sucede con los parámetros acústicos mencionados si son cotejados con el\u0000 registro medio del hablante (F0, dB, VEL). Los resultados del análisis acústico-estadístico señalan que hay regularidad y\u0000 direccionalidad manifiestas en el comportamiento de la F0 en las relaciones sintagmáticas. Esta regularidad, sin embargo, no es\u0000 extrapolable a las otras dos magnitudes, ni a las reacciones paradigmáticas.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47763054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mixing Catalan, English and Spanish on WhatsApp","authors":"Carmen Pérez-Sabater","doi":"10.1075/sic.19033.per","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.19033.per","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The purpose of this study is to examine language choice, language alternation and code-switching practices in\u0000 Instant Messaging (IM). Specifically, this article presents the results from an analysis of the written conversations of a\u0000 specific community formed by Valencian adults fluent in English. Taking a computer-mediated, discourse-centred ethnographic\u0000 approach to online discourse, the study has shown that, in this specific trilingual online community of language teachers,\u0000 language choice and the choice of a specific written variety is intimately related to audience. The group members mix Catalan,\u0000 English and Spanish regularly, their language choice and code-switching strategies serving to establish in-group solidarity,\u0000 familiarity and lessen face-threatening acts. Switches to English, sometimes followed by a switch to Catalan, are usually employed\u0000 for humorous word play. Interestingly, the case study exemplifies how the use of a certain language may be highly correlated to\u0000 ideological and political considerations.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48915314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politeness and pragmatic transfer in L2 pronominal address usage","authors":"Yixin Wang","doi":"10.1075/sic.19018.wan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.19018.wan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study investigates how Chinese learners of Spanish, who have a T/V distinction in their first language (L1),\u0000 use the T/V address forms in Spanish as a second language (L2). Findings show that the learners rely mainly on their L1 pragmatic\u0000 knowledge to employ the T/V in the L2. Despite having relatively good grammatical control of T/V, the learners produced frequent\u0000 T/V alternation due to negative pragmatic transfer. In Chinese using V normally conveys speaker’s perception of a high-power\u0000 differential and in relationships that are borderline T or V usage, shifting from T to V can convey deference and tends to\u0000 co-occur with face-threatening or face-enhancing acts. The learners transferred from Chinese their tendency to use V to express\u0000 deference and overutilized this politeness strategy in Spanish regardless of their relationship with the addressee. This\u0000 problematic usage may generate negative social consequences and calls for pedagogical intervention.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46548751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¿Usté en Ciudá Real dice Madriz?","authors":"Marko Kapović","doi":"10.1075/sic.20008.kap","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.20008.kap","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 En este trabajo se estudia la variable realización de la -d en el final de palabra en la variedad de\u0000 Ciudad Real. Como una variedad transicional que se encuentra a medio camino entre las variedades fonéticamente innovadoras del sur y las\u0000 conservadoras del norte, la modalidad de Ciudad Real muestra características de ambas: con respecto a la variable en cuestión es la más\u0000 avanzada de las variedades castellanas, aunque no alcanza la categoricidad de la elisión de las hablas andaluzas. El proceso de la pérdida\u0000 de la -d final de palabra en Ciudad Real parece haber sido frenado en su fase final debido a las presiones desde arriba y\u0000 la situación se ha complicado adicionalmente con la aparición de la variante septentrional [θ], que se ha impuesto al alófono canónico [ð̞].\u0000 Aunque el contexto fónico siguiente es el predictor lingüístico más importante para la realización de -d\u0000 final de palabra, es asimismo muy llamativa la influencia del factor unidad léxica\u0000","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41355864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crítica de Crespo Fernández & García (2018): Anglicismos sexuales en español. El inglés como recurso eufemístico y disfemístico en la comunicación virtual","authors":"Eugenia Esperanza Núñez Nogueroles","doi":"10.1075/sic.00075.nog","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.00075.nog","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49637778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity and investment in language learning","authors":"Farah Ali","doi":"10.1075/sic.19026.ali","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.19026.ali","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000 Norton (2000) argues that investment in L2 acquisition is also an investment in learner identity, which changes in the context of time and space – a notion that also has relevance for heritage learners. As such, the purpose of this study is to examine investment in language learning among HL Spanish speakers and the role of identity in their learning experiences. This study comprises of ten participants enrolled in an HL Spanish course who completed a background questionnaire, interviews, and writing prompts. Using narrative analysis, this study examines participants’ reflections on their heritage identity, HL exposure, and their investment, experiences and progress in their HL course. Results show that participants demonstrate varying degrees of investment in the HL, and heritage identity plays a role in this variance.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45912175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ecuadorian Spanish benefactive and its inherent aspect","authors":"P. González, M. Bruil","doi":"10.1075/sic.19027.gon","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.19027.gon","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Spanish benefactive verbal periphrasis dar ‘give’ + gerund is unique to the Spanish spoken in\u0000 Ecuador and it seems to have emerged in the historical Ecuadorian context of multilingualism. The analysis presented sheds light\u0000 to the intricacies of the construction, taking into consideration the inherent aspect of the gerundial verb. Oral data was\u0000 collected during two months of participant observation in Ecuador. The aspectual theoretical analysis of Verkuyl (1993), González (2003) and González and Verkuyl (2017) is applied to the data in order to determine the inherent aspectual\u0000 value of the gerundial verb in the predications. The results show that there is an overwhelming use of terminative predications.\u0000 Additionally, some predications that prima facie seem durative can be interpreted as terminative. This finding can be partially\u0000 explained by particular linguistic phenomena only appearing in the Spanish in contact with Kichwa. Moreover, this study adds\u0000 empirical proof of how relevant discourse is in aspectual representations.","PeriodicalId":44431,"journal":{"name":"Spanish in Context","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44219063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}