RT Journal Article
T1 On competing indexicalities in southern Peninsular Spanish. A sociophonetic and perceptual analysis of affricate [ts] through time.
A1 Vida-Castro, Matilde Ángeles
K1 Español - Fonética - Andalucía
K1 Pragmática
AB This paper examines linguistic, cognitive, and social factors in the development of an ongoing sound change in Andalusian Spanish related to the crosslinguistically well-known process of syllable coda lenition. The resyllabification of word internal /-s/ when followed by dental plosive /t/, in words such as lingüística [liŋ⋅ˈgujs⋅ti⋅ka] ‘linguistics’ realized as [liŋ⋅ˈguj⋅tsi⋅ka], results in an affricate sound [ts] that may be indexed in different ways within the speech community. Findings are reported from a trend study of two sample surveys separated by a twenty-year time gap, acoustic analysis, and two perception experiments. Acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, theoretical phonology, and sociolinguistic studies provide the theoretical background to help explain the development of this sound change and its connection with other phonological features of Andalusian Spanish. Development of the affricate allophone is a natural outcome consistent with universal constraints boosted by the recent emergence of a regional koine, where its indexicality is undetermined.
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
FD 2022-10-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25768
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25768
LA eng
NO Vida-Castro, M. (2022). On competing indexicalities in southern Peninsular Spanish. A sociophonetic and perceptual analysis of affricate [ts] through time. Language Variation and Change, 34(2), 137-163. doi:10.1017/S0954394522000084
NO Data and results discussed in this article are based on the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación research projects El Español de Málaga: Procesos de Variación y Cambio Espaciales y Sociales (VARES-AGENDA 50, PID2019-104982GB-C52) and Sociolinguistic Patterns of Castilian Spanish (ECOPASOS, FFI2015-68171-C5-1). Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 25 ene 2026