Variation in /?/ Outcomes in the Speech of U.S

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Autor/in	Figueroa, Nicholas James
Titel	Variation in /?/ Outcomes in the Speech of U.S
Quelle	(2017), (130 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-3696-2762-6
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Language Variation; Speech Communication; Phonemes; Puerto Ricans; Spanish; Native Language; Latin Americans; Pronunciation; Heritage Education; Native Language Instruction; College Students; Academic Degrees; Task Analysis; Oral Language; Interviews; Computer Software; Contrastive Linguistics; Language Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Sprachenvielfalt; Fonem; Puerto Rican; Puerto-Ricaner; Spanisch; Latin America; People; Lateinamerika; Bevölkerung; Volk; Aussprache; Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; Collegestudent; Degree; Degrees; Academic level graduation; Akademischer Grad; Hochschulabschluss; Aufgabenanalyse; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Sprachforschung
Abstract	This dissertation investigated the speech productions of the implosive -r consonant by U.S.-born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Language Spanish speakers in New York. The following main research questions were addressed: 1) Do heritage language Caribbean Spanish speakers evidence the same variation with the /?/ consonant in the implosive positions as native Caribbean Spanish speakers? If so, how frequent does this variation occur, to what other environments may it extend, and what are some extralinguistic factors that correlate with that variation? 2) Do Puerto Rican heritage Spanish speakers realize the /?/ consonants in their speech productions more frequently or less than Dominican heritage Spanish speakers? 3) Does formal collegiate Spanish instruction alter the phonetic outcomes of the /?/ in the implosive positions and spontaneous speech productions by Heritage Caribbean Spanish Speakers? Thirty-Two university students were tested, of whom half were of Puerto Rican descent and the remaining, Dominican. In addition, half of the informants were male and the remaining half, female, and half were enrolled in an academic Spanish degree program in their university while the other half were not. Informants completed three tasks: a Word task of both real and nonsense words, a Reading task of several sentences and a short narrative paragraph, and an Oral Interview of questions and answers. These tasks tested the production of the /?/ consonants in the following implosive environments: Word-Internal before a consonant ("e.g. puerta"), absolute final (utterance final) position (before a pause or at the end of the sentence), and word final position before a consonant ("e.g. comer manzanas"). Other non-implosive positions that were tested for the extension of this phenomenon were the following: Word-Internal before a vowel ("e.g. para") (where /?/ does not appear as part of a consonant cluster), word final position before a vowel (e.g. "trabajar en la manana") and the second part of a consonant cluster ("e.g. gracias, fabrica" etc.) A total of 5,500 /?/ tokens were collected, coded and analyzed by use of PRAAT and SPSS. It was found that Heritage Caribbean Spanish speakers produce the same degree of variation when /?/ is in implosive position, as do native Caribbean Spanish speakers. Lateralization is the most frequent non-rhotic outcome and the word-internal implosive position is the context which displays the highest rates of variation. Puerto Rican heritage speakers produced a more frequent rate of lenition of their /?/ consonants than did Dominican heritage speakers. Heritage Caribbean Spanish students enrolled in a program of formal college-level Spanish instruction produced more lenited -r tokens than those not enrolled in the program, while those who were not enrolled produced a higher lenition percentage of their total produced -r tokens. This investigation ended with its limitations and suggestions for further research. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01