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Phonetics and Phonology of Ibero-Romance Languages
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Phonetics and Phonology of Ibero-Romance Languages

A special issue of Languages (ISSN 2226-471X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 2655

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza

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Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: phonetics; laboratory phonology; sociophonetics; second language acquisition of phonology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite proposals for contributions to a Special Issue of Languages entitled “Phonetics and Phonology of Ibero-Romance Languages”. The goal of this Special Issue is to showcase current research on the phonetics and phonology of the Ibero-Romance languages, focusing on synchronic phenomena and including different theoretical and methodological approaches, to give a representative view of the state of the field.

We welcome studies on any Ibero-Romance language or languages, including comparative approaches, and particularly encourage submissions on lesser studied languages, varieties, or communities of speakers. Contributions may focus on any aspect of the sound system of these languages at the sub-segmental, segmental, syllabic, or prosodic levels. The Special Issue will cover a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, contributions to phonological theory based on new data; new theoretical approaches to long-standing phonological issues; laboratory approaches to phonology; issues at the phonetics–phonology interface; experimental phonetics including production and perception studies; phonetic modelling of production and perception patterns; sociophonetics; and innovative methodological approaches to recurring issues. The Special Issue will not only speak to researchers working on Ibero-Romance languages but will also reach a wider audience by highlighting how research on these languages contributes to general phonological and phonetic debates.

Tentative Completion Schedule:

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: July 15, 2023
  • Notification of Abstract Acceptance: August 15, 2023
  • Full Manuscript Deadline: February 15, 2024

Dr. Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editor ([email protected]).

After authors receive the notification of abstract acceptance, manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously. Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website.

All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Languages is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Ibero-Romance languages
  • phonetics
  • phonology
  • sound patterns
  • formal phonology experimental phonetics
  • laboratory phonology
  • sociophonetics

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Buenas no[tʃ]es y mu[ts]isimas gracias: A Sociophonetic Study of the Alveolar Affricate in Peninsular Spanish Political Speech
by Matthew Pollock
Languages 2024, 9(6), 218; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060218 - 14 Jun 2024
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While variation in the southern Peninsular Spanish affricate /tʃ/ has been considered in the context of deaffrication to [ʃ], this study examines an emergent variant [ts] in the context of sociolinguistic identity and style in political speech. Based on a corpus of public [...] Read more.
While variation in the southern Peninsular Spanish affricate /tʃ/ has been considered in the context of deaffrication to [ʃ], this study examines an emergent variant [ts] in the context of sociolinguistic identity and style in political speech. Based on a corpus of public speech from Madrid and Andalusia, Spain, this study examines the phonetic and sociolinguistic characteristics of the affricate, finding variation in the quality of the frication portion of the segment through an analysis of segment duration (ms), the center of gravity (Hz), and a categorical identification of realization type. The results suggest that both linguistic variables, like phonetic environment, stress, lexical frequency, and following vowel formant height, as well as extralinguistic variables, like speaker city, gender, political affiliation, and speech context, condition use. Based on these findings, it appears that production of the alveolar affricate [ts] is an incipient sociolinguistic marker in the process of acquiring social meaning. It is particularly associated with female speech and prestige norms that transcend regional identification. This alveolar variant serves as an additional sociolinguistic resource accessible for identity development among politicians and offers insight into ongoing change in the affricate inventory of southern and northern-central Peninsular Spanish. Full article
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Phonation Patterns in Spanish Vowels: Spectral and Spectrographic Analysis
by Carolina González, Susan L. Cox and Gabrielle R. Isgar
Languages 2024, 9(6), 214; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9060214 - 12 Jun 2024
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This article provides a detailed examination of voice quality in word-final vowels in Spanish. The experimental task involved the pronunciation of words in two prosodic contexts by native Spanish speakers from diverse dialects. A total of 400 vowels (10 participants × 10 words [...] Read more.
This article provides a detailed examination of voice quality in word-final vowels in Spanish. The experimental task involved the pronunciation of words in two prosodic contexts by native Spanish speakers from diverse dialects. A total of 400 vowels (10 participants × 10 words × 2 contexts × 2 repetitions) were analyzed acoustically in Praat. Waveforms and spectrograms were inspected visually for voice, creak, breathy voice, and devoicing cues. In addition, the relative amplitude difference between the first two harmonics (H1–H2) was obtained via FFT spectra. The findings reveal that while creaky voice is pervasive, breathy voice is also common, and devoicing occurs in 11% of tokens. We identify multiple phonation types (up to three) within the same vowel, of which modal voice followed by breathy voice was the most common combination. While creaky voice was more frequent overall for males, modal voice tended to be more common in females. In addition, creaky voice was significantly more common at the end of higher prosodic constituents. The analysis of spectral tilt shows that H1–H2 clearly distinguishes breathy voice from modal voice in both males and females, while H1–H2 values consistently discriminate creaky and modal voice in male participants only. Full article
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A Feature Alignment Approach to Plural Realization in Eastern Andalusian Spanish
by Stuart Davis and Matthew Pollock
Languages 2024, 9(5), 166; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050166 - 2 May 2024
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Using an optimality theoretic analysis, this study offers a conception of the problem of plural realization in Eastern Andalusian Spanish (EAS) where plural suffix /s/ was deleted diachronically that differs from other accounts that assign the EAS plural an underlying suffixal /s/ synchronically. [...] Read more.
Using an optimality theoretic analysis, this study offers a conception of the problem of plural realization in Eastern Andalusian Spanish (EAS) where plural suffix /s/ was deleted diachronically that differs from other accounts that assign the EAS plural an underlying suffixal /s/ synchronically. Using alignment constraints, we argue that plural /s/ does not appear in the underlying form synchronically in EAS, but that instead the plural morpheme is represented by a floating [–ATR]PL feature that aligns to the right edge of the word and spreads left. The [–ATR] feature, represented phonetically as a laxing or opening of vowels, applies to all mid vowels, low vowels in word final position, and combines with vowel epenthesis to explain Eastern Andalusian pluralization tendencies in words with final consonants. We discuss the behavior of high vowels, which can be transparent to harmony, and focus in particular on the plural of words that end in a final stressed vowel that have been rarely discussed in the EAS literature. We develop an optimality-theoretic analysis on the Granada variety and extend that analysis to other varieties with somewhat different patterns. Full article
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