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- Title
Spanish mid vowels as sociolinguistic variables in Galicia.
- Authors
de la Fuente Iglesias, Mónica; Pérez Castillejo, Susana
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the acoustic properties of Spanish stressed mid vowels from a corpus of over 2,800 tokens produced by Galician-dominant bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals. Following principles of bilingual speech production theory, we explore whether these vowels present lexically conditioned open variants [ɛ] and [ɔ] not present in monolingual Spanish. In combination with linguistic factors, we also examine whether bilingual mid-vowel production in our corpus is related to social variables. Assuming a linguistic repertoires perspective that links variation to identity performance, we argue that Spanish /e/ and /o/ are sociolinguistic variables in Galicia and that the distribution of their variants can be exploited to perform social meaning.
- Subjects
GALICIA (Spain : Region); SPANISH language; VOWELS; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; CORPORA
- Publication
Spanish in Context, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 3, p464
- ISSN
1571-0718
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/sic.18027.igl