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Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception
Edited by Whitney Chappell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 21] 2019
► pp. 315–325

Chapter 11
Of intersectionality, replicability, and holistic perspectives

Methodological considerations in Spanish sociophonetic perception studies

| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Sociolinguistics is grounded in the premise that social variables are essential to understanding how language works. While early Spanish sociolinguistic studies focused on speech production, there is a growing body of work in Spanish sociophonetics that recognizes the role of speech perception in variation and social identity. As this field grows, it is useful to reflect upon best practices for moving forward. To that end, this chapter considers the field from a theoretical lens, focusing on intersectional approaches (Crenshaw, 1989; Levon, 2015) as it addresses the practical challenge of replicability (Simons, 2014) and offers recommendations for a holistic approach that will poise Spanish sociophonetic perception data to effectively address questions of language variation and change.

Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Intersectional approaches
  • Reproducibility
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 28 November 2019
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