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Dialectal Differences in Spanish Voiced Obstruent Allophony: Costa Rican versus Iberian Spanish

Phonetica, 2012
Abstract The Spanish voiced obstruents /b d g/ are traditionally described as having each two allophones: stop and fricative (approximant) in complementary distribution. Several researchers have noted that some Central American and Highland Colombian varieties deviate from the general allophonic distribution in showing a preference for ...
Patricio, Carrasco   +2 more
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The Voseo in Costa Rican Spanish

Hispania, 1963
In the fifteenth century, the interchange of vos and ti was much more frequent and the d of the verbal forms of the second person plural was already falling, vayaes for vayades, soes for sodes, etc. There was also a fusion of the contiguous e's in verbs of the second conjugation, iredes > irees > irds, avedes > avees > avis, debedes > debees > debes ...
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Variable production and indexical social meaning: On the potential physiological origin of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2017
Abstract In several dialects of Spanish, men tend to exhibit more intervocalic /s/ voicing than women, e. g., oso ‘bear’ as [ozo], and this difference may have a physiological basis. File-Muriel et al. (2015, Disentangling the physiological from the socially-learned in gradient, sociophonetic processes: Evidence from s-realization in ...
Whitney Chappell, Christina García
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On the social perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish

Language Variation and Change, 2016
AbstractTo decipher for the first time what, if any, social meaning is indexed by nonstandard intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rica, such as [paza] forpasa‘raisin’, the present study digitally manipulates 12 utterances from six Costa Rican speakers to vary only in intervocalic [s] versus [z].
Whitney Chappell
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Tuteo, Effeminacy and Homosexuality: Change and Continuity in Costa Rican Spanish

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2021
AbstractCosta Rica’s second-person singular (2PS) address system is known for both its changing nature and its incorporation oftuteo, ustedeo,andvoseoforms. While the latter are generalized across communicative contexts,tuteouse has oscillated over time, being consistently associated with foreignness, effeminacy and homosexuality, with one study (Marín
Víctor Fernández-Mallat   +1 more
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Hemoglobin Suresnes in a Costa Rican Woman of Spanish-Indian Ancestry

Hemoglobin, 1978
The first example of hemoglobin Suresnes, α2 141 (HC3) Arg → His β2, has recently been reported by Poyart et al (1). Hb Suresnes was detected by electrophoresis in a 6 year old boy who was found by routine hematological examination to have an abnormal RBC count and Hb concentration.
G F, Saenz   +8 more
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A description of the acoustic properties of rhotics in Costa Rican Spanish

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023
Studies into the rhotic variation in Costa Rican Spanish have previously utilized perceptive methodologies and focused primarily on phonetic/phonological descriptions of the phenomenon. More recent studies such as Dearstyne (2021) have utilized modern acoustic methodology and have found a system that includes trills, taps, assibilated fricatives and ...
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