The Development of a Regional Phonological Feature during a Semester Abroad in Argentina

Autor/inn/en	Pozzi, Rebecca; Bayley, Robert
Titel	The Development of a Regional Phonological Feature during a Semester Abroad in Argentina
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 43 (2021) 1, S.109-132 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pozzi, Rebecca) ORCID (Bayley, Robert)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-2631
DOI	10.1017/S0272263120000303
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Phonology; Spanish; Study Abroad; Second Language Learning; Language Variation; Pronunciation; Sociolinguistics; Predictor Variables; Argentina (Buenos Aires) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fonologie; Spanisch; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachenvielfalt; Aussprache; Soziolinguistik; Prädiktor
Abstract	Although recent research suggests that gains are made in the acquisition of dialectal features during study abroad, the few studies that have been conducted on this topic in Spanish-speaking contexts have focused primarily on features characteristic of Spain. This article examines the L2 acquisition of phonological features characteristic of Buenos Aires Spanish, [[esh - voiceless palato-alveolar fricative]] and [[ezh - voiced postalveolar fricative]], known as "sheísmo/zheísmo," for example the pronunciation of llave [[voiced palatal fricative]aße] "key" as [[esh - voiceless palato-alveolar fricative]aße] or [[ezh - voiced postalveolar fricative]aße]. Participants include 23 learners of Spanish studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More than 4,800 tokens were gathered before, during, and at the end of the semester using sociolinguistic interviews, a reading passage, and a word list. These data were analyzed for the influence of linguistic and social factors using mixed-effects logistic regression (Rbrul; Johnson, 2009). Results suggest that participants approximate nativelike norms of use of these features and that time in country is a statistically significant predictor of patterns of phonological variation. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01