Approaches to coda /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish
| dc.contributor.author | Giudice Grillo, Andrés | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-18T16:22:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-18T16:22:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-03 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ecuadorian Spanish displays significant regional variation affecting the realization of coda /s/. Within the highlands of Ecuador, the pronunciation of coda /s/ as [z] occupies different phonological environments depending on the subregion: While in the far north and south [z] is only found preceding voiced consonants, central and central-southern varieties display [z] in more environments, namely word-final prevocalic and prefix-final environments, which makes them unique in the Spanish-speaking world. In this investigation, I review the main studies that have focused on the description and analysis of coda /s/ voicing in Ecuadorian Spanish (Lipski, 1989 and Bradley & Delforge, 2006) and combine their insights with those of other studies (Muñiz Cachón & Cuevas Alonso, 2012, Navarro Tomás, 1968) which have explored the sonority of preconsonantal /s/. Stemming from this exploration, I present a conciliatory solution to the problem of /s/-voicing. I modify Lipski’s formal analysis to include a voice-neutral [S] that appears in pre-consonantal position, which resonates with the findings by Muñiz Cachón and Cuevas Alonso (2012) and the observations by Navarro Tomás (1968), both of which show that pre-consonantal /s/ in Spanish has gradient voicing. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2371-2643 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/114489 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39649 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ecuadorian Spanish | en_US |
| dc.subject | /s/-voicing | en_US |
| dc.subject | phonology | en_US |
| dc.subject | dialectology | en_US |
| dc.title | Approaches to coda /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish | en_US |
| dc.type | working paper | en_US |
| ucalgary.item.requestcopy | true | en_US |
| ucalgary.scholar.level | Undergraduate |
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