The missing link in Spanish heritage trill production
Repiso-Puigdelliura, Gemma (University of California)
Kim, Ji Young (University of California)

Date:	2020
Description:	13 pàg.
Abstract:	While heritage language phonology has attracted a great deal of attention, little is known about the development of heritage phonological grammars. This study examines the production of the Spanish trill /r/ by school-aged (9-10 years) and adult heritage speakers. Results showed that the adult heritage speakers produced the trill in a more target-like manner than the child heritage speakers, although half of them diverged from non-heritage native baselines reported in other studies. Further analysis of the distribution of trill variants suggests that heritage Spanish trill development occurs in the order of single lingual constriction → frication → multiple lingual constrictions. However, instead of abandoning variants of early stages, some adult heritage speakers kept them in their trill inventories, demonstrating increased variability. Our findings indicate that 9- to 10-year-old heritage speakers are still in the process of developing heritage phonological grammars and even during adulthood their grammars may not reach stability.
Rights:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Trill production ; Spanish heritage speakers ; Child heritage speakers ; Heritage phonology ; Phonetics
Published in:	Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Vol. 24 Núm. 3 (2020) , p. 454-466, ISSN 1469-1841

DOI: 10.1017/S1366728920000668

13 p, 557.6 KB

The record appears in these collections:
Articles > Research articles
Articles > Published articles