Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact
Edited by Whitney Chappell and Bridget Drinka
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 12] 2021. v, 235 pp.
Whitney Chappell
List of John Benjamins publications for which Whitney Chappell plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception
Edited by Whitney Chappell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 21] 2019. vi, 344 pp.
Subjects Phonetics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2021 Chapter 8. ‘En esta petsa, este anio’: The Spanish sound system in contact with Miskitu Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan, Díaz-Campos, Manuel and Sandro Sessarego (eds.), pp. 181–204 | Chapter
The historical evolution of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua has given rise to a multilingual and multicultural region that has been, until relatively recently, sheltered from the Spanish language spoken in Western Nicaragua. As contact has increased between the country’s East and West, Miskitu… read more
2021 New perspectives on Spanish socio-historical linguistics Spanish Socio-Historical Linguistics: Isolation and contact, Chappell, Whitney and Bridget Drinka (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2020 Chapter 4. Social contact and linguistic convergence: The reduction of intervocalic /d/ in Bilwi, Nicaragua Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, Rao, Rajiv (ed.), pp. 83–102 | Chapter
The Spanish spoken along Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast has been described as a dialect divergent from Western Nicaraguan Spanish, and one commonly cited difference is the realization of intervocalic /b, d, ɡ/. The present study uses intervocalic /d/ as a litmus test to determine whether young… read more
2019 Chapter 8. The sociophonetic perception of heritage Spanish speakers in the United States: Reactions to labiodentalized <v> in the speech of late immigrant and U.S.-born voices Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, Chappell, Whitney (ed.), pp. 239–264 | Chapter
This study uses a prominent phonetic variable in U.S. Spanish (orthographic <v> as bilabial or labiodental) to investigate heritage Spanish speakers’ social perceptions. Based on the results of a matched-guise test in which 75 U.S.-born heritage speakers evaluated voices with a labiodental and… read more
2019 Introduction: Spanish sociophonetic perception: The state of the field Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, Chappell, Whitney (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2019 Phonological (in)visibility: The perception of reduced Spanish vowels among L1-Spanish speakers, L2-Spanish learners, and English monolinguals Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5:3, pp. 435–463 | Article
Reduced vowels between obstruents and rhotics are durationally variable and phonologically invisible in Spanish, e.g. p ə rado ‘field’ as /pɾ/. The present study compares L1-Spanish speakers, English monolinguals, and L2-Spanish learners’ perceptual boundaries for reduced vowels in Spanish. A… read more
2018 Chapter 7. The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.), pp. 143–168 | Chapter
As the state of the field advances empirically, sociolinguists are increasingly expected to utilize statistics in their data analysis. Some researchers have limited formal statistical training, and even for the more experienced researcher, the focus of model construction is often on the independent… read more
2016 Bilingualism and aspiration: Coda /s/ reduction on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis, Sessarego, Sandro and Fernando Tejedo-Herrero (eds.), pp. 261–282 | Article
Spanish has become increasingly prevalent in Bilwi, a Nicaraguan town on the northern Atlantic Coast, where many L1-Miskitu locals are now Spanish-dominant. As the community shifts towards Spanish, I investigate whether these L2-Spanish speakers are producing advanced rates of coda /s/ reduction… read more
2015 Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua: A local vs. global approach Spanish in Context 12:2, pp. 221–254 | Article
Nicaraguan Spanish is characterized by the reduction of coda /s/ to glottal frication, elision, and glottal constriction, but the latter variant has never been explored in depth. The present study fills this void by analyzing the word-final, intervocalic /s/ environment in sociolinguistic… read more