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A sociophonetic approach to the acquisition of Spanish rhotics in a bilingual community
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 7, No 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 5231 ; 2473-8689 (2022)
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Abstract:
This study explores Spanish-English bilingual children’s acquisition of Spanish rhotics. The children’s productions are compared to a group of Spanish-English bilingual adults who represent the Spanish spoken in the same community: Albuquerque, New Mexico. In their narrations of a wordless picture-book, both children and adults produce more non-canonical than canonical variants. Binary logistic regressions run on 817 rhotics produced by 21 children, ages 3-9-years-old, and 6 adults demonstrate that non-canonical variants, instead of canonical variants are more likely to occur as Spanish use increases and in word medial position. The results point towards the propagation of a working change in Spanish rhotics that sees both articulatory and sociolinguistic motivations. Implications for research on phonetic-phonological development are also discussed
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Keyword:
bilingualism; Child Language; language acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Spanish rhotics
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URL: http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/5231
https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5231
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