Table Of ContentIssues in Hispanic and
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Lusophone Linguistics
Spanish Phonetics and
Phonology in Contact
Studies from Africa,
the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
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Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact
Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
Spanish Phonetics
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Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by
Rajiv Rao
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Rajiv Rao & Sandro Sessarego
Part I: Africa
chapter 1
Equatorial Guinea Spanish non-continuant /d/: More than a generic L2 trait 15
John M. Lipski
Part II: The Americas
chapter 2
The changing rhythm of Yucatan Spanish 35
Jim Michnowicz & Alex Hyler
chapter 3
The vowel spaces of Spanish-K’ichee’ bilinguals 63
Brandon O. Baird
chapter 4
Social contact and linguistic convergence: The reduction of intervocalic
/d/ in Bilwi, Nicaragua 83
Whitney Chappell
chapter 5
A preliminary, descriptive survey of rhotic and approximant fricativization
in Northern Ecuadorian Andean Spanish varieties, Quichua, and
Media Lengua 103
Jesse Stewart
chapter 6
Intervocalic phonemic stop realization in Amazonian Peru: The case
of Yagua Spanish 141
Nicholas Henriksen, Stephen Fafulas & Erin O’Rourke
i Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact
chapter 7
Rhotics in Shipibo-Konibo Spanish: A phonetic study 163
José Elías-Ulloa
chapter 8
Afro-Peruvian Spanish intonation: A case of contact-induced
language change 207
Brianna Butera, Rajiv Rao & Sandro Sessarego
chapter 9
The glottal stop in Guaraní and Paraguayan Spanish 227
Shaw Nicholas Gynan & Ernesto Luís López Almada
chapter 10
The interaction of social factors in the acoustically gradient realization
of intervocalic /d/ in Border Uruguayan Spanish 263
Mark Waltermire & Michael Gradoville
chapter 11
Exploring focus extension in Mapudungun and Chilean Spanish
intonational plateaus: The case for pragmatic transfer through
language contact 293
Brandon M. A. Rogers
Part III: Spain
chapter 12
The Spanish sound system and intonation in contact with Galician 327
Xosé Luís Regueira & Elisa Fernández Rei
chapter 13
The unstressed vowel system of Asturian Spanish: Language contact and
phonetic contrast in word-final position 363
Sonia Barnes
chapter 14
Spanish phonology in contact with Catalan: On implementations of
gradience and discreteness in the study of sociolinguistic
variation of laterals 383
Justin Davidson
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chapter 15
Portuguese remnants in the Spanish of Olivenza (Extremadura):
Exploring vowel raising, global speech rhythm, and intonation 421
Christoph Gabriel, Jonas Grünke & Elena Kireva
Index 451
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I would like to give my most heartfelt thanks to all of the
authors who contributed to this volume. I sincerely appreciate their efforts to con-
duct fieldwork in various parts of the Spanish-speaking world, in many cases in
regions where most of us will never have the chance to go, as well as their willing-
ness to share some of the findings stemming from their data as part of this col-
lection of papers. I am also grateful for their cooperation, patience, and overall
positive spirit throughout the process of developing this volume. I consider myself
fortunate to have had the chance to collaborate with such a wonderful group of
high-caliber scholars and high-character individuals.
Furthermore, I am indebted to all expert peer-reviewers of chapters, who
were kind enough to enthusiastically allocate their time and energy to support
the publication of this volume. Their valuable feedback has ensured that the final
version of each chapter is as polished as possible. These colleagues are: Scott
Alvord (Brigham Young University), Jaine Beswick (University of Southampton),
Travis Bradley (UC Davis), Esther Brown (University of Colorado Boulder), Phil-
lip Carter (Florida International University), Sonia Colina (University of Ari-
zona), Marisa Cruz (University of Lisbon), Maria del Mar Vanrell (University of
the Balearic Islands), José Elías-Ulloa (Stony Brook University), Christy García
(Saint Louis University), Miguel García (Georgia Southern University), Marisol
Garrido (Eastern Michigan University), C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda (University
of Houston), Chad Howe (University of Georgia), Seunghun Lee (International
Christian University, Japan), Elisabeth Mayer (Australian National University),
Trudel Meisenburg (Osnabrück University), Antje Muntendam (Florida State Uni-
versity), Steve Parker (Dallas International University), Marta Ramírez Martínez
(College of Charleston), Daniel Recasens (Autonomous University of Barcelona),
Brendan Regan (Texas Tech University), Sergio Robles-Puente (West Virginia Uni-
versity), Joaquín Romero Gallego (Rovira i Virgili University), Rebecca Ronquest
(North Carolina State University), Paolo Roseano (University of Barcelona and
University of South Africa), Scott Sadowsky (Catholic University of Chile), Armin
Schwegler (UC Irvine), Megan Solon (SUNY Albany), Gisela Tomé Lourido (Uni-
versity of Leeds), João Veloso (University of Porto), Marina Vigário (University of
Lisbon), and Fernando Zúñiga (University of Bern).
I would also like to thank the editors of the Issues in Hispanic and Luso-
phone Linguistics series, Jennifer Cabrelli and Kim Geeslin. Their collegiality and
