Assessing Language Attitudes through a Matched-Guise Experiment: The Case of Consonantal Deletion in Venezuelan Spanish

Autor/inn/en	Diaz-Campos, Manuel; Killam, Jason
Titel	Assessing Language Attitudes through a Matched-Guise Experiment: The Case of Consonantal Deletion in Venezuelan Spanish
Quelle	In: Hispania, 95 (2012) 1, S.83-102 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2133
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Syllables; Language Attitudes; Language Variation; Foreign Countries; Language Research; Linguistic Theory; Spanish; Pronunciation; Speech Communication; Venezuela + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Silbe; Sprachverhalten; Sprachenvielfalt; Ausland; Sprachforschung; Linguistische Theorie; Spanisch; Aussprache
Abstract	This investigation contributes to the understanding of language attitudes toward consonantal deletion by examining its perception using a matched-guise experiment (Casesnoves and Sankoff 2004; Lambert, Hodgson, Gardner, and Fillenbaum 1960) with fifteen listeners. Two experiments were designed for testing language attitudes, one toward intervocalic /d/ deletion and one toward syllable-final /[alveolar flap]/ deletion. The findings of this research support the hypothesis according to which retention of syllable-final /[alveolar flap]/ is perceived as a prestigious variant in Venezuelan Spanish. However, our findings do not show a strong attitudinal evaluation in favor of /d/ retention. These results provide a contribution to the study of language attitudes using a perceptual task, a practice that is not very commonly used to assess a linguistic variable. The findings show that production studies present useful evidence, but may not necessarily reflect a speaker's evaluation of linguistic variants. (Contains 1 table and 10 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10