The role of social networks in cross-dialectal variation in the perception of the Rioplatense assibilated pre-palatal [ʃ]

• Lauren B. Schmidt ^[1]
  1. [1] San Diego State University

     San Diego State University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception / Whitney Chappell (ed. lit.), 2019, ISBN 9789027262035, págs. 188-209
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter presents a quantitative study of cross-dialectal differences in the perceptual categorization of the assibilated pre-palatal (e.g., calle ‘street’ /kaʃe/), a feature of Rioplatense Argentine Spanish. Listeners from two South American varieties of Spanish that varied in degree of contact with Rioplatense speakers completed an Identification Task in which they categorized [ʃ] in Spanish pseudowords. Results revealed that listeners from the contact group (La Rioja, Argentina) identified the phone as the intended phonetic category, orthographic "y ll", while listeners with limited contact with Rioplatense Spanish (Bogota, Colombia) assigned the phone to a separate category, orthographic "ch". The study shows how contact with non-local speech varieties may result in changes to perceptual norms, even in the absence of use (production) of these forms.