Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish

Eva Núñez-Méndez (Portland State University, USA)

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Routledge
09 January 2023

Sociolinguistics; Dialect, slang & jargon

Series: Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the current state of Spanish sibilants and their dialectal variations.

Focusing on different processes undergone by sibilants in Spanish (e.g., voicing, devoicing, weakening, aspiration, elision) in various geographical areas and language contact situations, each chapter offers an analysis on a unique sociolinguistic case from different formal, experimental, and data-based approaches. The opening chapter orients the reader with an overview of sibilant system’s evolution, which serves as an anchor to the other chapters and facilitates understanding for readers new to the topic. The volume is organized around three thematic sections: part one, Spain; part two, United States; and part three, Central and South America. The collection includes research on dialects in both Peninsular and Trans-Atlantic Spanish such as Jerezano, Caribbean Spanish in Boston and New York City, Cuban Spanish in Miami, Colombia-Barranquilla Spanish, northern Buenos Aires Argentine Spanish, and USA heritage Spanish, among other case studies.

This volume offers an original and concise approach to one of the most studied variables in Spanish phonetics, taking into account geographically-based phonetic variation, sociolinguistic factors, and various Spanish language contact situations. Written in English, this detailed synthesis of the wide-ranging geolinguistic features of Spanish sibilants provides a valuable resource for scholars in Hispanic studies, linguistics, Spanish dialectology and sociolinguistics.

Edited by: Eva Núñez-Méndez (Portland State University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9780367722210
ISBN 10: 0367722216
Series: Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 09 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PART I. Spain 1. An overview of the sibilant merger and its development in Spanish 2. Sibilants in Western Andalusian Spanish: the lack of a Sevillian norm in the Jerezano speech community 3. Intervocalic /s/-voicing in Spanish in contact with Catalan PART II. United States 4. Describing and analyzing variability in Spanish /s/: a case study of Caribbeans in Boston and New York City 5. Variable realization of final /s/ in Miami Cuban Spanish: the reversal of diachronic language change 6. Variable /s/-voicing by heritage Spanish speakers in the United States PART III. Central and South America 7. /s/ weakening in Nicaragua 8. A sociophonetic approach to /s/-realization in the Colombian Spanish of Barranquilla 9. Sibilants in Ecuadoran Spanis 10. Syllable-final /s/-variation in an Uruguayan Spanish-Portuguese contact variety 11. Variable voicing in Argentine Spanish /ʒ/

Eva Núñez is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Portland State University, USA.