Perception of Welsh vowel contrasts by Welsh-Spanish bilinguals in Argentina

Bell, Elise

doi:10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4051

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“…For possessed nouns beginning with consonants that are unaffected by mutation, possessor gender is apparent only when indicated by context or a following optional pronoun /o/ o 'he' or /hi/ hi 'she'. Mayr et al (2017) and Bell (2018); Ball (1976) includes a thorough overview of early documentation work on Northern Welsh vowels. General descriptions of the vowels of Welsh dialects are found in Ball & Williams (2001) and Hannahs (2013).…”

Section: Aspirate Mutationmentioning

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Northern Welsh

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Archangeli

Anderson³

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is one of two main dialect families of Welsh (cym, ISO 693-3) spoken in Wales, the other being Southern Welsh. The Welsh counties of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Wrexham in the United Kingdom are considered to comprise the unofficial region of North Wales shown in Figure 1 (as designated by StatsWales 2018). Within this area there are further dialectal differences that are beyond the scope of this analysis, which considers the general features of Northern Welsh as a whole. However, see Thomas & Thomas (1989) for an overview of differences between eastern and western varieties of Northern Welsh.Welsh is a Brittonic Celtic language, more closely related to Cornish and Breton than to Celtic languages in the Goidelic branch: Manx, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic (Ball & Fife 1993). Like all Celtic languages, Welsh has verb-initial word order and a system of initial consonant mutation. Initial consonant mutation is the remnant of historic sandhi processes which conditioned predictable phonological alternations. Today, the phonological triggers for these alternations are opaque or absent, and mutation is best described as a morphophonological process that is found in a small set of lexical items and syntactic patterns (see section 'Mutation' below for further detail).Phonetic description of Welsh has a long history, notably Sweet (1882) and S. Jones (1926). More recent work includes a description of the vocalic system (G. E. Jones 1971(G. E. Jones , 1972, a description of Welsh stress (B. Williams 1999), a collected volume reporting a

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Section: Aspirate Mutationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Agozzino (2006) explores the folkloric traditions of Welsh Patagonia through ethnographic interviews, and touches briefly on lexical contact features unique to Patagonian Welsh, including calques, loanwords, and Welsh–Spanish hybrid idioms. In terms of phonology, Bell (2015) examines the production of phonemic vowel length in Patagonian Welsh as a possible locus of contact-induced phonological change, finding that – contrary to predictions based on first language (L1) Spanish phonology – Welsh–Spanish bilinguals in Patagonia retain the phonemic vowel length distinctions of Welsh, regardless of order of language acquisition (Welsh L1 or Spanish L1).…”

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Contact effects on voice-onset time (VOT) in Patagonian Welsh

Sleeper¹

2018

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The effects of language contact extend well beyond the borrowing of lexical items, and can include morphosyntactic, phonetic, and phonological changes over time (Thomason & Kaufman 1998). One especially common structural outcome of long-term contact is phonetic transfer (Matras 2009: 222). The Welsh spoken in Patagonia, which has been in close contact with Spanish for the past 150 years, offers one example of this phenomenon: Jones (1984) observes that younger speakers of Patagonian Welsh may be developing unaspirated voiceless stops /p t k/ as a result of Spanish contact. This paper measures the voice-onset time (VOT) of the Welsh voiceless stops /p t k/ using contemporary conversational speech data from both Patagonia and Wales, for speakers in three age groups (0–29, 30–59, and 60+ years), to examine the effects of Spanish contact on Patagonian Welsh. Results indicate that the tendencies seen in Jones (1984) have held true, and in fact have generalized to become a feature of Patagonian Welsh for speakers of all ages: Patagonian speakers produce the Welsh stops /p t k/ with significantly shorter VOT than speakers from Wales. These results shed light on an important distinguishing phonetic feature of this understudied variety of Welsh, as well as the dynamics of language contact in action.

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Perception of Welsh vowel contrasts by Welsh-Spanish bilinguals in Argentina

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Contact effects on voice-onset time (VOT) in Patagonian Welsh

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