Hispanic linguistics at the crossroads : theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact : proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013

Studies have uncovered several non-standard trill realizations besides the multiple alveolar trill in different Spanish varieties (Lewis, 2004; Colantoni, 2006a; Willis, 2006; Díaz-Campos, 2008; among others). The present study adds to this body of literature by using variationist methods to analyze trill production in Panamanian Spanish. The sample consists of 608 tokens analyzed acoustically in Praat. Subsequently, multivariate analyses are carried out in Rbrul (Johnson, 2009). The acoustic analysis reveals eight variants, of which the most frequent is the normative trill with two or more occlusions. The multivariate analyses further revealed that variable trill production is significantly conditioned by both linguistic and extralinguistic factors (e.g. preceding segment type and speaker age). Furthermore, lexical frequency has an effect on normative/non-normative alternation, thus having important implications for phonological theory and sociophonetics in the Spanish-speaking world. This Collection Of Articles, Contributed By Both Experienced And Novice Researchers, Addresses Core Issues In Three Different Domains Of Hispanic Linguistics: Theoretical Linguistics, Language Acquisition And Language Contact. Together These Papers Provide An Overview Of How The Analysis Of Spanish Contributes To Current Formal And Experimental Linguistics, While On An Individual Level Offering Fine-grained Analyses And Innovative Proposals Covering A Wide Range Of Areas Such As Semantics And Pragmatics, Syntax, Morphology, Phonology, Prosody, Dialectal Variation, First, Second And Bilingual Language Acquisition, As Well As Sociolinguistics. The Selection Of Chapters Included In This Volume Were Presented At The 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium Hosted By The Language Acquisition Research Laboratory Of The Department Of Modern Languages At The University Of Ottawa In October 2013 In Ottawa, Canada. The Volume Will Be A Resource For Graduate Students, Academic And Researchers In Theoretical, Experimental And Descriptive Linguistics In General And Hispanic Linguistics In Particular. Pt. I. Theoretical And Descriptive Approaches. No Superiority, No Intervention Effects : The Spanish Puzzle / Lara Reglero & Emma Ticio -- Overt Pro In Romance : Towards A Unification Of Pro And Pro / Peter Herbeck -- The Semantics And Pragmantics Of Andar And Venir + Gerund / Lorena Sainz-maza Lecanda & Meagan E. Horn -- Sequence Of Tenses In Complementation Structures : Lexical Restrictions And Effects On Language Acquisition / Rui Marques, Purificação Silvano, Anabela Gonçalves & Ana Lúcia Santos -- Fue Muerto : Suppletion In Spanish Analytic Passives / Grant Armstrong & Jason Doroga -- Temporal And Spectral Dependencies In The Processing Of Spanish And English Stop Consonant Voicing / Fernando Llanos, Olga Dmitrieva, Alexander L. Francis & Amanda Shultz -- Segmental And Prosodic Conditionings On Gradient Voicing Assimilation In Spanish / Rebeka Campos-astorkiza -- Pt. Ii. Language Acquisition. The Sum Is More Than Its Parts : Acquisition Of Clusters In Spanish / María Cristina Cuervo & Ana Teresa Pérez-leroux -- Does Agreement Affect The Syntax Of Bare Nominal Subjects In Russian-spanish Bilinguals? / José Camacho & Alena Kirova -- Perfecting The Past / Joanne Markle La Montagne & María Cristina Cuervo -- The Protracted Acquisition Of Past Tense Aspectual Values In Child Heritage Spanish / Alejandro Cuza & Lauren Miller -- Pt. Iii. Language Contact And Language Variation. Morphological Adjectival Intensifier Variation In Lima, Peru / Alvaro Cerron-palomino -- An Experimental Approach To Hypercorrection In Dominican Spanish / Barbara E. Bullock & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio -- Dialect Identification And Listener Attributes : Do You Hear La Tonada? / Jennifer Lang-rigal -- Sociophonetic Analysis Of Young Peninsular Spanish Women's Voice Quality / Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen & Christian Dicanio -- A Sociophonetic Analysis Of Trill Production In Panamanian Spanish / Delano S. Lamy. Edited By Rachel Klassen, Juana M. Liceras, Elena Valenzuela, University Of Ottawa. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish contributes to current formal and experimental linguistics, while on an individual level offering fine-grained analyses and innovative proposals covering a wide range of areas such as semantics and pragmatics, syntax, morphology, phonology, prosody, dialectal variation, first, second and bilingual language acquisition, as well as sociolinguistics. The volume will be a resource for graduate students, academic and researchers in theoretical, experimental and descriptive linguistics in general and Hispanic linguistics in particular.The selection of chapters included in this volume were presented at the 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted by the Language Acquisition Research Laboratory of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Ottawa in October 2013 in Ottawa, Canada."--Page 4 de la couverture This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic Linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish contributes to current formal and experimental linguistics, while on an individual level offering fine-grained analyses and innovative proposals covering a wide range of areas such as semantics and pragmatics, syntax, morphology, phonology, prosody, dialectal variation, first, second and bilingual language acquisition, as well as sociolinguistics. The volume will be a resource for graduate students, academics and researchers in theoretical, experimental and descriptive linguistics in general and Hispanic Linguistics in particular.The selection of chapters included in this volume were presented at the 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted in October 2013 by the Language Acquisition Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada.