Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception

Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception
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Introduction: Spanish sociophonetic perception: The state of the field
	References
Spain
1. The role of social cues in the perception of final vowel contrasts in Asturian Spanish
	1. Introduction
	2. Background
		2.1 Social information and language processing
		2.2 Exemplar theory
		2.3 Final vowels in Asturian Spanish
	3. Methodology
		3.1 Experiment design
		3.2 Participants
		3.3 Statistical analysis
	4. Results
	5. Discussion
	6. Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
2. Covert and overt attitudes towards Catalonian Spanish laterals and intervocalic fricatives
	1. Introduction
	2. Linguistic attitudes and speech features in Catalonia
		2.1 Matched guise studies in Catalonia
		2.2 Laterals and intervocalic fricatives in Spanish and Catalan
	3. Research questions and hypotheses concerning Catalans’ Spanish [ɫ] and [z]
	4. Experimental methodology
		4.1 Matched guise
			4.1.1 Guise stimuli
			4.1.2 Presentation of guise stimuli
			4.1.3 Matched guise questionnaire
		4.2 Debriefing interview
		4.3 Subject population
	5. Data analysis methods and results
		5.1 Data analysis
		5.2 Matched guise results (Covert attitudes)
			5.2.1 Solidarity scores
			5.2.2 Power scores
			5.2.3 Accent scores
			5.2.4 Rurality scores
			5.2.5 Bilingualism scores
		5.3 Debriefing interview results (overt attitudes)
	6. Discussion
	7. Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
	Appendix A. Guise Passages
	Appendix B. Matched Guise Questionnaire
Dialectology meets sociophonetics: The social evaluation of ‘ceceo’ and ‘distinción’ in Lepe, 3. Spain
	1. Introduction
	2. Background
		2.1 “Rural” traditional dialectology to “urban” variationist sociolinguistics
		2.2 The linguistic variable
		2.3 Previous studies on coronal fricatives
		2.4 The speech community of Lepe
	3. Methodology
		3.1 Stimuli
		3.2 Experimental design
		3.3 Implementation and participants
		3.4 Statistical analysis
	4. Results
		4.1 Socioeconomic status
		4.2 Education
		4.3 Masculinity/Femininity
		4.4 Urban-ness/Rural-ness
		4.5 Formality
		4.6 Occupational prestige
		4.7 Origin
	5. Discussion
	6. Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
	Appendix A. The spontaneous speech sentences with syllable initial coronal fricatives underlined and bolded
	Appendix B. Questionnaire used in the perception experiment (one speaker block)
South America
4. Regional identity in Highland Ecuador: Social evaluation of intervocalic /s/ voicing
	1. Introduction
	2. Literature review
		2.1 Ecuadorian Spanish
		2.2 Intervocalic /s/ voicing
		2.3 Perception of /s/
	3. Methodology
		3.1 Stimuli
		3.2 Experiment design
		3.3 Participants
		3.4 Statistical analysis
	4. Results
		4.1 Status factor
		4.2 Pleasantness
		4.3 Age
		4.4 Masculinity/femininity
		4.5 Regional origin
	5. Discussion and conclusion
		5.1 Interaction of gender in social perception
		5.2 Intervocalic /s/ voicing as a regional marker and potential change in progress
		5.3 Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
5. Spanish and Palenquero: Language identification through phonological correspondences
	1. Introduction
	2. Literature review
		2.1 Palenquero (Lengua ri Palenge)
		2.2 Palenquero-Spanish phonological alternations
		2.3 The psycholinguistic and sociophonetic role of Palenquero-Spanish phonological alternations
		2.4 The linguistic ecology of Palenque
	3. Methods
		3.1 Experiment 1: Language identification of lexical items
			3.1.1 Participants
			3.1.2 Materials
			3.1.3 Procedure
			3.1.4 Results and discussion
		3.2 Experiment 2: Language identification through eye movement
			3.2.1 Participants
			3.2.2 Materials
			3.2.3 Procedure
			3.2.4 Results and discussion
		3.3 Experiment 3: Identification of language switches through eye movement
			3.3.1 Participants
			3.3.2 Materials
			3.3.3 Procedure
			3.3.4 Results and discussion
	4. General discussion
	5. Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
6. The role of social networks in cross-dialectal variation in the perception of the Rioplatense assibilated pre-palatal [ʃ]
	Introduction
	Background
		Regional variation in speech perception, Spanish
		Social networks and speech perception
		Variation in articulation of Spanish orthographic  and 
		Research questions
	Method
		Participants
		Tasks
			Identification task
			Language Background and Dialect Contact Questionnaire
			Data analysis
	Results
		Categorization of Rioplatense pre-palatal by yeísta listeners
		Regional variation in categorization of [ʃ]
		Individual variation and dialect contact experiences
		Metalinguistic commentary
	Discussion
		Categorization of the sociophonetic variants by the \'yeísta\' listeners
		Regional perceptual variation according to degree of dialect contact
		Social networks and speech perception
	Conclusion
	References
7. The social perception of intervocalic /k/ voicing in Chilean Spanish
	1. Introduction
	2. Literature review
		2.1 Reduction and voicing as social variables in Spanish
		2.2 Perception of intervocalic voicing in Spanish
		2.3 The present study
	3. Experimental design
		3.1 Matched-Guise Technique
		3.2 Stimuli selection and manipulation
		3.3 Experimental delivery
		3.4 Participants
	4. Analysis
	5. Results
		Status
		Niceness
		Chilean identity
		Perceived age
	6. Discussion
	7. Conclusion
	References
North America
8. The sociophonetic perception of heritage Spanish speakers in the United States: Reactions to labiodentalized  in the speech of late immigrant and U.S.-born voices
	1. Introduction
	2. Literature review
		2.1 Labiodentalized 
		2.2 A more detailed look at heritage speakers
		2.3 The importance of sex in sociophonetic studies
		2.4 Research questions
	3. Methodology
		3.1 Speakers
		3.2 Experiment and participants
		3.3 Statistical analysis
	4. Results
		4.1 Hispanicity/confidence/Spanish competence
		4.2 Intelligence/work ethic
		4.3 Perceived age
	5. Discussion
	6. Conclusion
	Acknowledgment
	References
9. Spoken word recognition and ‘shesheo’ in Northwestern Mexico: A preliminary investigation into the effects of sociophonetic variability on auditory lexical access
	Introduction
		Review of the literature
			Shesheo and Norteño Mexican Spanish
		Phonetic variability and spoken word recognition
		The present study
	Method
		Participants
		Design and materials
		Stimuli
		Procedure
		Analysis
	Results
		Recognition rates
		Response latencies
	Discussion
		Summary of findings
		Interpretation and implications
	Conclusion
	References
10. The perception-production connection: /tʃ/ deaffrication and rhotic assibilation in Chihuahua Spanish
	1. Introduction
	2. Literature review
		2.1 Rhotics and rhotic assibilation
		2.2 Deaffrication of the voiceless post-alveolar affricate /tʃ/
		2.3 Change from above and below
		2.4 Hypothesis
	3. Method
		3.1 Speakers
		3.2 Data collection
		3.3 Coding and statistical analysis
	4. Results
		4.1 Production and perception
		4.2 The Production-perception relationship
	5. Discussion
	6. Conclusion
	Acknowledgment
	References
Future Directions
11. Of intersectionality, replicability, and holistic perspectives: Methodological considerations in Spanish sociophonetic perception studies
	Introduction
	Intersectional approaches
	Reproducibility
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
12. Future directions for sociophonetic research in Spanish
	1. Introduction
	2. Variables of interest for future research
		2.1 Vowels
		2.2 Prosody
	3. Theoretical approaches for future research
		3.1 The role of the listener as the initiator of sound change
		3.2 The role of the production-perception relationship in sound change
	4. Conclusion
	References
Index