The Effects of Code-Switching and Lexical Stress on Vowel Quality and Duration of Heritage Speakers of Spanish
The quantity of research on Heritage Speakers (HS) of Spanish phonetics has increased over the last decade, including studies on the possible effect of code-switching on Spanish phonetics. Following this line of research, the present study investigates the role of code-switching and lexical stress o...
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doaj-034613437f4148b5abf577487e99e9c52020-11-24T21:47:07ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2017-12-01242910.3390/languages2040029languages2040029The Effects of Code-Switching and Lexical Stress on Vowel Quality and Duration of Heritage Speakers of SpanishVanessa Elias0Sean McKinnon1Ángel Milla-Muñoz2Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, 355 North Jordan Avenue, GISB 2160, Bloomington, IN 47405, USADepartment of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, 355 North Jordan Avenue, GISB 2160, Bloomington, IN 47405, USADepartment of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, 355 North Jordan Avenue, GISB 2160, Bloomington, IN 47405, USAThe quantity of research on Heritage Speakers (HS) of Spanish phonetics has increased over the last decade, including studies on the possible effect of code-switching on Spanish phonetics. Following this line of research, the present study investigates the role of code-switching and lexical stress on Spanish HS vowel production, specifically if the introduction of English reduces the vowel quality and duration of Spanish vowels after a code-switch. Eleven Spanish HSs participated in a controlled narration task in which they were asked to read aloud texts that code-switched between English and Spanish and one text that only contained Spanish. PRAAT was used to segment the vowels and the F1 and F2 values, along with duration, were extracted. The results show that both code-switching and lexical stress significantly affect Spanish HS vowels. Code-switching and vowels in unstressed position were more centralized than the vowels in the monolingual Spanish session and vowels in stressed position, respectively; unstressed vowels were also shorter in duration than stressed vowels. These results show that the introduction of English—a language in which vowel quality and duration change between unstressed and stressed syllables—via code-switching significantly affects Spanish HS vowels, subsequently providing evidence for transient interference.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/2/4/29Spanish heritage speakersphoneticsvowel productioncode-switchingvowel qualityvowel durationlexical stress |
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Vanessa Elias Sean McKinnon Ángel Milla-Muñoz The Effects of Code-Switching and Lexical Stress on Vowel Quality and Duration of Heritage Speakers of Spanish Languages Spanish heritage speakers phonetics vowel production code-switching vowel quality vowel duration lexical stress |
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The Effects of Code-Switching and Lexical Stress on Vowel Quality and Duration of Heritage Speakers of Spanish |
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The Effects of Code-Switching and Lexical Stress on Vowel Quality and Duration of Heritage Speakers of Spanish |
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The Effects of Code-Switching and Lexical Stress on Vowel Quality and Duration of Heritage Speakers of Spanish |
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The Effects of Code-Switching and Lexical Stress on Vowel Quality and Duration of Heritage Speakers of Spanish |
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The Effects of Code-Switching and Lexical Stress on Vowel Quality and Duration of Heritage Speakers of Spanish |
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effects of code-switching and lexical stress on vowel quality and duration of heritage speakers of spanish |
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The quantity of research on Heritage Speakers (HS) of Spanish phonetics has increased over the last decade, including studies on the possible effect of code-switching on Spanish phonetics. Following this line of research, the present study investigates the role of code-switching and lexical stress on Spanish HS vowel production, specifically if the introduction of English reduces the vowel quality and duration of Spanish vowels after a code-switch. Eleven Spanish HSs participated in a controlled narration task in which they were asked to read aloud texts that code-switched between English and Spanish and one text that only contained Spanish. PRAAT was used to segment the vowels and the F1 and F2 values, along with duration, were extracted. The results show that both code-switching and lexical stress significantly affect Spanish HS vowels. Code-switching and vowels in unstressed position were more centralized than the vowels in the monolingual Spanish session and vowels in stressed position, respectively; unstressed vowels were also shorter in duration than stressed vowels. These results show that the introduction of English—a language in which vowel quality and duration change between unstressed and stressed syllables—via code-switching significantly affects Spanish HS vowels, subsequently providing evidence for transient interference. |
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Spanish heritage speakers phonetics vowel production code-switching vowel quality vowel duration lexical stress |
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