The Effects of Language Dominance in the Perception and Production of the Galician Mid Vowel Contrasts

Amengual, Mark; Chamorro, Pilar

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“…Pillai scores are an output of a multivariate analysis of variance, which are used to indicate the degree of merger or distance between two clouds of data points (Amengual & Chamorro, 2015;Hall-Lew, 2010;Hay, Warren, & Drager, 2006). Pillai scores for each speaker were based on normalized data, for /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ separately, where vowel height was determined by SpeakerV.…”

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“…Factors included in the multivariate analysis were vowel type (high mid or low mid), consonantal context (dental or labial), syllable structure (CV or CVC), and syllable count (2 or 3). Given this range of variables, a high Pillai score (with an accompanying small p-value) indicates a significant distance, or lack of merger, between the two vowel types; a small or insignificant Pillai score suggests a merger (Amengual & Chamorro, 2015;Sloos, 2013). We also determined the extent to which Pillai scores correlate with BLP scores using Pearson's product-moment correlation tests.…”

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Variation in the lexical distribution and implementation of phonetically similar phonemes in Catalan

Nadeu

Renwick

2016

Journal of Phonetics

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A B S T R A C TIn some Romance languages with two pairs of mid vowel phonemes, it is acknowledged that these contrasts are somewhat unstable. We analyze the distribution and realization of the anterior and posterior mid vowels in Catalan to test claims (mostly based on anecdotal evidence) that these contrasts exhibit inter-and intraspeaker variability. Participants produced target words containing stressed mid vowels and, later, judged vowel height (/e/ vs. /ɛ/; /o/ vs. /ɔ/) in the same words. The results indicate that, even intradialectally, the distribution of mid vowels is somewhat variable, with speakers showing only moderate agreement in the distribution of phonemic vowels. In addition, speakers are not always consistent in their realization of mid vowels when they produce the same word (probably indicating weak phonolexical representations). Interspeaker variation was also observed in the phonetic implementation of the contrasts. The results indicate that the Catalan mid vowel contrasts, like those in other Romance languages, are weaker and less stable than other phonological oppositions.

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Variation in the lexical distribution and implementation of phonetically similar phonemes in Catalan

Nadeu

Renwick

2016

Journal of Phonetics

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“…The effect of language dominance in phonetic transfer has been attested in several studies, including Broselow (1984), Simonet (2011Simonet ( , 2014 and Amengual and Chamorro (2015). Broselow (1984) shows the role of dominance in a study on the effects of L1 constraints on L2 production and perception of syllabification in Arabic-English bilinguals.…”

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Arabic-Spanish Language Contact in Puerto Rico: A Case of Glottal Stop Epenthesis

2019

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The current study examines the realization of adjacent vowels across word boundaries in Arabic-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in Puerto Rico, focusing specifically on the rate of glottal stop epenthesis in this context (e.g., hombre africano to [ˈom.bre.ʔa.fri.ˈka.no]). It was hypothesized that Arabic-Spanish bilinguals would show a higher rate of glottal stop epenthesis than Spanish monolinguals because of transfer from Arabic. In addition, we investigated the possible effects of stress, vowel height, language dominance and bilingual type on the rate of glottal stop epenthesis. Results from a reading task with 8 participants showed no significant difference in glottalization between bilinguals and monolinguals. For monolinguals, glottalization was significantly more likely when the first vowel was low or stressed; significant interactions between vowel height and stress were found for the bilingual group. Language dominance was a significant factor, with Arabic-dominant bilinguals glottalizing more than the Spanish-dominant bilinguals. In addition, early sequential bilinguals favored glottalization slightly more than simultaneous bilinguals, without reaching significance. Our data suggests some effects of syllable structure transfer from Arabic, particularly in Arabic-dominant participants. To our knowledge, our study is the first exploration of Arabic and Spanish in contact in Puerto Rico, and the first to acoustically examine the speech of Arabic-Spanish bilinguals.

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“…Following Amengual and Chamorro [14], participants were classified as Basque dominant or Spanish dominant depending on their BLP scores. More precisely, those participants that had a negative score were coded as Spanish dominant, and those that had a positive score were coded as Basque dominant.…”

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“…Furthermore, these scores are based on the detailed evaluation of the four factors mentioned above and they capture the linguistic reality of speakers better than other approaches based on only one or two factors, as they do not rely only on speakers' linguistic proficiency or language use. Several studies have successfully used the BLP to measure language dominance among bilinguals of Spanish and another language, including Baird [12], Coetzee et al [13], and Amengual and Chamorro [14].…”

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Sibilant Merger in the Variety of Basque Spoken in Amorebieta-Etxano

Muxika-Loitzate

2017

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Abstract:Basque has an apico-alveolar /s "/, a lamino-alveolar /s «/, and a prepalatal sibilant /S/ that are represented by the letters , , and , respectively. The apico-alveolar and the lamino-alveolar sibilants have merged in some areas of Biscay, Guipuzcoa, and the Basque-speaking territories of Alava (e.g., Hualde 2010), and Spanish has been hypothesized as a factor driving this merger (Jurado Noriega 2011). On the other hand, complex sibilant systems like the traditional Basque one tend to be neutralized independently of language contact (Bukmaier et al. 2014). In order to add to this debate and shed new light on the merger, this study explored Biscayan Basque, a variety at an advanced state of the merger (Hualde 2010). More precisely, the study tested how the degree of bilingualism affects the production of the sibilants under study and the resulting neutralization by performing an acoustic analysis of the data. The results show that Basque-and Spanish-dominant speakers behave differently with regard to the sibilant merger, and that they have different places of articulation for their sibilants. Only Basque-dominant speakers maintain a significant distinction in the place of articulation of and overall, whereas Spanish-dominant speakers do not make a distinction among sibilants. Furthermore, the resulting merged sibilant is less fronted for Spanish-dominant speakers than the sibilants of Basque-dominant speakers.

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The Effects of Language Dominance in the Perception and Production of the Galician Mid Vowel Contrasts

Cited by 63 publications

References 96 publications

Variation in the lexical distribution and implementation of phonetically similar phonemes in Catalan

Variation in the lexical distribution and implementation of phonetically similar phonemes in Catalan

Arabic-Spanish Language Contact in Puerto Rico: A Case of Glottal Stop Epenthesis

Sibilant Merger in the Variety of Basque Spoken in Amorebieta-Etxano

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