A cross-dialect comparison of Peninsula- and Peruvian-Spanish vowels

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Authors
Publication date 2007
Host editors
  • J. Trouvain
  • W.J. Barry
Book title Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
ISBN
  • 9783981153514
Pages (from-to) 1505-1508
Publisher SaarbrĂĽcken: University of Saarbrucken
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract A comparison was made of the acoustic properties of Spanish vowels produced by monolingual Spanish speakers from Spain and Peru. Monophthongs were produced in sentence final position. Peninsula speakers’ vowels were shorter, had lower fundamental frequency, and were more likely to be produced with creaky voice. A multivariate test on the whole vowel system did not find a significant cross-dialect difference in formant values. Implications for second-language speech perception and production research are discussed.
Document type Conference contribution
Published at http://www.icphs2007.de
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