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IsoglossThe two rhotic consonants of Ibero-Romance languages are characterised by their very specific distribution and by the prosodic weight of one of them. Data has hitherto suggested a geminate-to-single contrast for the pair of rhotics.
Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
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The acquisition of rhotics in onset clusters in L2 Spanish [PDF]
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2023 This study examines the acoustic realization of rhotics in Spanish onset clusters in 10 native speakers and 25 second language learners (L2) with English as their L1.
Carolina González, Christine Weissglass
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Acoustic analysis of rhotics in coda position in five- to seven-year-old children
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2021 This article studies the acoustic production of Central Calatan rhotics in a group of 90 boys and girls aged 5 to 7 years, in medial and final coda. An acoustic description is given by analyzing the number and type of components, both of the closure and
Jordi Cicres, Sílvia Llach
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A sociophonetic approach to the acquisition of Spanish rhotics in a bilingual community [PDF]
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022 This study explores Spanish-English bilingual children’s acquisition of Spanish rhotics. The children’s productions are compared to a group of Spanish-English bilingual adults who represent the Spanish spoken in the same community: Albuquerque, New ...
Sa Lease, M. Marchesi
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Portuguese Has Two Underlying Rhotics: Evidence from Lisbon and Carioca Varieties [PDF]
Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2022 Like many Romance languages, Portuguese has a weak-r (tap) and a strong-R (posterior fricative). At the surface level, these two rhotics are only contrastive between vowels, whereas they are neutralized in other positions.
Chao Zhou, A. Jesus
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Rhotic Variation in Brazilian Portuguese
LanguagesWe present acoustic and articulatory data from an experiment designed to test the phonetic variability of rhotics in Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on the São Paulo variety.
Michael Ramsammy +1 more
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Isogloss, 2022 This study examines the acoustic realization of phonemic taps and trills across generations of Creole-Spanish bilinguals in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia.
Falcon Restrepo Ramos
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What’s wrong with being a rhotic?
Glossa, 2019 The class of rhotics is subject to extensive variation, and a reliable phonetic correlate has not been found. This variation is also why identifying a segment as a rhotic in an unknown language is not a trivial matter.
Alex Chabot
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Glossa PsycholinguisticsRecent work on sound symbolism has established a relation between roughness and the alveolar trill (e.g., Ćwiek et al., 2024). The available evidence is, however, ambiguous as to whether the phonetic properties of an alveolar trill or the phonological ...
Holger Mitterer +8 more
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Duration as a secondary cue in Spanish rhotics
IsoglossThis study investigates language learners’ attention to segmental duration when perceiving the Spanish tap-trill contrast. Previous research has demonstrated that native speakers (NSs), heritage language learners (HLLs), and second language (L2) learners
Rachel Garza, Erik Willis
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