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Variation in /[symbol for alveolar flap or tap]/ Outcomes in the Speech of U.S.-Born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Spanish Speakers.

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Title/Author:	Variation in /[symbol for alveolar flap or tap]/ Outcomes in the Speech of U.S.-Born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Spanish Speakers./
Author:	Figueroa, Nicholas James.
Description:	1 online resource (130 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-08A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
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ISBN:	9781369627626

Variation in /[symbol for alveolar flap or tap]/ Outcomes in the Speech of U.S.-Born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Spanish Speakers.
Figueroa, Nicholas James.

Variation in /[symbol for alveolar flap or tap]/ Outcomes in the Speech of U.S.-Born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Spanish Speakers. - 1 online resource (130 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

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:

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369627626Subjects--Topical Terms:

557829
Linguistics.
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Electronic books.

Variation in /[symbol for alveolar flap or tap]/ Outcomes in the Speech of U.S.-Born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Spanish Speakers.
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520 $a 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 enviorments may it extend, and what are some extralinguistic factors that correlate with that variation?
520 $a 2) Do Puerto Rican heritage Spanish speakers realize the [alveolar tap] /r/ consonants in their speech productions more frequently or less than Dominican heritage Spanish speakers?
520 $a 3) Does formal collegiate Spanish instruction alter the phonetic outcomes of the [alveolar tap] /r/ in the implosive positions and spontaneous speech productions by Heritage Caribbean Spanish Speakers?
520 $a 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.
520 $a 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 [alveolar tap] /r/ consonants in the following implosive environments: Word-Internal before a consonant (e.g. puer ta), 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. pa ra) (where the [alveolar tap] /r/ 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. g racias, fab rica etc.) A total of 5,500 the [alveolar tap] /r/ tokens were collected, coded and analyzed by use of PRAAT and SPSS.
520 $a It was found that Heritage Caribbean Spanish speakers produce the same degree of variation when the [alveolar tap] /r/ 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 the [alveolar tap] /r/ 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.
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