Syllabic Consonants in New Mexican Spanish

Espinosa, Aurelio M.

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“…In this regard, it is important to emphasize that despite the tendency for function words to be unstressed; the indefinite article normally bears primary stress in Spanish. This unexpected behavior of the indefinite article has been repeatedly noted in descriptive studies of Spanish (Espinosa 1925:115, Rosenblat 1946:113, Navarro Tomás 1967:193-194, Quilis 1996:159, 1999:392, and Quilis et al 1994. These authors have observed that except for the case when it is used with the meaning of approximation (e.g.…”

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“…[ka.m  .t a] 'little bed'), there is a brief period towards the end of the syllabic consonant during which the vocal tract is simultaneously obstructed at two different points because the oral closure of the syllabic consonant is withheld until the oral closure of the following consonant is formed (Espinosa 1925:111, Alonso 1930. In such cases, although the oral closure of the syllabic consonant is released during the articulation of the following consonant (Espinosa 1925:111), only the release of the latter segment is audible.…”

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“…According to Espinosa (1909Espinosa ( /1930Espinosa ( , 1911Espinosa ( /1946Espinosa ( , 1925, in TNMS both nasal and liquid consonants can surface as syllable peaks, whereas fricatives, stops, and affricates only occur as syllable margins. That is to say that sonorant, but not obstruent consonants, can become syllabic.…”

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“…Moreover, among stressed high vowels, the ones that yield their syllabicity to an adjacent consonant are those that belong to affixes or function words. following Coleman (2001) and Espinosa (1909Espinosa ( /1930Espinosa ( , 1925, that the vowel that disappears in …”

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Syllabic-consonant formation in Traditional New Mexico Spanish

Piñeros

2005

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An interesting development in the phonology of Traditional New Mexico Spanish (TNMS) 1 is the formation of syllabic consonants through the absorption of an adjacent vowel). The effect of this process is that a syllable formerly headed by a vowel is now headed by a consonant. This sound change is quite unexpectedgiven that under any version of the sonority scale, consonants are less sonorous than vowels.Since the nucleus is the peak of sonority within the syllable, one would expect the segment of higher sonority to be preferred in the role of syllable head; yet it is exactly in the opposite direction that the formation of syllabic consonants advances. In TNMS, an additional property of this process is that the nuclear vowels that are replaced by consonants are high vowels bearing primary or secondary stress. Moreover, among stressed high vowels, the ones that yield their syllabicity to an adjacent consonant are those that belong to affixes or function words. following Coleman (2001) and Espinosa (1909Espinosa ( /1930Espinosa ( , 1925, that the vowel that disappears in

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“…Considering that Los Angeles is a highway megalopolis, the administrative frontiers do not match the linguistic or dialectal frontiers. From the studies of Parodi (2004Parodi ( , 2009aParodi ( , 2009bParodi ( , 2009c Espinosa (1909;1940, p. 1944 and Blanco (1971). Their studies point to the direction of the Spanish language in California as a dialect with close ties with those of the Southwest, but some different features.…”

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On Teaching the History of California Spanish to HLL using Siri: Methodology and Procedures

Prieto

2016

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This article reports results from a study in which two groups of college level students were exposed to interactions with Apple's Siri in order to foster dialogue about their dialectal features. In this paper, the methodology and procedural challenges behind one of the activities that the participants completed are studied. These activities had been designed to present to them the historical dimensions of the Historical California Spanish dialect, or Californio Spanish, and pursue two different outcomes for the participants: 1) to foster the interest in discovering a dialectal past, and 2) to increase linguistic self-esteem, as a result of an external validation provided by technology.

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Socio‐Phonological Variation in Latin American Spanish

Lipski

2011

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

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