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Variation in Spanish/s: Overview and New Perspectives
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2022)
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The natural tendency for language variation, intensified by Spanish’s territorial growth, has driven sibilant changes and mergers across the Spanish-speaking world. This article aims to present an overview of the most significant processes undergone by sibilant /s/ in various Spanish-speaking areas: devoicing, weakening, aspiration, elision, and voicing. Geographically based phonetic variations, sociolinguistic factors, and Spanish language contact situations are considered in this study. The sibilant merger and its chronological development in modern Spanish, along with geographic expansion, have resulted in multiple contemporary dialectal variations. This historical lack of stability in these sounds has marked modern regional variations. Tracing and framing the sibilants’ geo-linguistic features has received much attention from scholars, resulting in sibilants being one of the most studied variables in Spanish phonetics. In this article, we provide a concise approach that offers the reader an updated sociolinguistic view of the modern cross-dialectal realizations of /s/. It is essential to study sibilant development to describe Spanish dialects, the differences between Transatlantic and Castilian varieties, and the speech features found in Spanish speaking communities in the Americas. Examining sibilance from different approaches with a representative variety of Spanish dialects as examples advances the importance of sociolinguistic phenomena to index language changes. (This article belongs to the Special Issue Language Variation and Change in Spanish)
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Keyword:
S (The sound); Sociolinguistics; Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature; Spanish language -- Dialects; Spanish language -- Phonetics; Spanish language -- Pronunciation; Spanish language -- Social aspects; Spanish language -- Variation
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URL: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/wll_fac/163
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Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2021)
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An Overview of the Sibilant Merger and its Development in Spanish
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2021)
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El Arte Sinestético en la Obra de Isabel Coixet
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2019)
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Spain’s Language Policies and the Discourse of Contact Linguistics: A Diachronic Approach
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2018)
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A Diachronic Approach to the Old Spanish Sibilant Merger and its Impact on Trans-Atlantic Spanish. Part II.
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2017)
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A Diachronic Approach to the Old Spanish Sibilant Merger and its Impact on Trans-Atlantic Spanish (Part I)
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2016)
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Theoretical Approach in a Case in Diachronic Phonetism: Betacism and its Repercussions in Modern Spanish (Acercamiento teórico a un caso de fonetismo diacrónico: el betacismo y sus repercursiones)
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2014)
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A Sociolinguistic Study of Narcotrafficker Speech in Caqueta, Colombia (Estudio sociolinguistico del lenguaje del narcotrafico en la region de Caqueta, Colombia)
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2013)
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Linguistic Minorities and the Right to Languages (Minorías lingüísticas y derecho a las lenguas)
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2013)
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Fundamentos teóricos y prácticos de historia de la lengua española
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2012)
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A Comparative Linguistic Study between Sicilian and Spanish (Estudio lingüístico-comparativo del siciliano y el español)
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2012)
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Language as an Existential Catharsis in The Secret Life of Words by Isabel Coixet (El lenguaje como catarsis existencial en La vida secreta de las palabras de Isabel Coixet)
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2011)
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A Comparative Linguistic Application of the D.O. and the I.O. in Both Spanish and Albanian (Aplicación lingüística-comparativa del CD y CI del español y del albanés)
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2008)
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Review of Dieter Wanner's The Power of Analogy: An Essay on Historical Linguistics
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2007)
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Review of Adrian Holliday's "The Struggle to Teach English as an International Language."
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2007)
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Tienen Ventajas Cognitivas Los Bilingües Sobre Los Monolingües?
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2007)
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¿Corregir o no los errores en la clase de español como lengua extranjera?
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2001)
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