Lexical frequency and s-realization in Barranquilla, Colombia
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This book reports on a quantitative analysis of /s/ in words of different lexical frequencies in a cohesive speech community. Speakers from Barranquilla, Colombia between 20-26 years of age read approximately 100 sentences, containing words with s + consonant sequences. These productions were submitted to auditory acoustical analysis; visual inspection of spectrograms was carried out for ambiguous cases in which the strong sibilance that characterizes /s/ was not clear. The findings reveal that the single most important factor conditioning s-realization is lexical frequency. Speakers tend towards full articulation of /s/ in low-frequency words, while weakening it in high-frequency words. The importance of this factor becomes more apparent when one examines a wider range of the frequency scale than what is attested in conversational speech. These findings support models of language which incorporate lexical frequency as a central component in explaining variations across words in both...Похожие книги
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