The role of social cues in the perception of final vowel contrasts in Asturian Spanish
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Sonia Barnes [1]
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[1] Marquette University
Marquette University
City of Milwaukee, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception / Whitney Chappell (ed. lit.), 2019, ISBN 9789027262035, págs. 16-38
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Influenced by the minority language of the region, speakers of Asturian Spanish vary in their production of word-final back vowels in the masculine singular morpheme, with realizations that range from Spanish [o] (/pero/) to Asturian [u] (/peru/). Previous research has found that listeners’ social judgements of speakers are affected by whether [-o] or [-u] are used. This study explores how social cues about the speakers affect the listeners’ perception of these vowels. The results of a binary forced-choice identification task combined with sociolinguistic priming show that productions paired with visuals of urban status were more likely to be identified as Spanish /-o/, but only when listeners were in favor of Asturian attaining co-official status. The results contribute to our understanding of the role that explicit stigmatization and overt language attitudes have on phonetic representation.
