Paper 2211
The Relative Importance of Lexical Frequency in Syllable- and Word-Final /s/ Reduction in Cali, Colombia
Earl K. Brown
165-178 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Earl K. Brown
165-178 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Abstract
This paper contributes to the literature on syllable- and word-final /s/ reduction in Spanish by analyzing 5,661 tokens of syllable- and word-final /s/ from 31 speakers from Cali, Colombia. The tokens were coded for phonetic factors shown to condition this phenomenon. Additionally, the usage-based factor of lexical frequency was also included and was coded by using a 3.5 million-word corpus of spoken Spanish. The results show that the most influential factor to constrain syllable- and word-final /s/ reduction in these data is the following phonological context.
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Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
edited by Joseph Collentine, Maryellen García, Barbara Lafford, and Francisco Marcos Marín
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edited by Joseph Collentine, Maryellen García, Barbara Lafford, and Francisco Marcos Marín
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