A lecture in English.
Dr. Antonio Medina-Rivera (Cleveland State University):
Language perceptions and language attitudes in Puerto Rican Spanish
Date:
2021. november 18th (Thursday) 6:00 pm
Webex-link:
The language of the lecture is English.
Abstract
Although other European languages (e.g. German, Portuguese) evolved from having an alveolar multiple vibrant to a velar or uvular sound,聽 Puerto Rican Spanish is the only Spanish dialect with a dorsal variant of multiple vibrant /r/.聽 The multiple vibrant can appear as two 鈥渞鈥� in the middle of a word (e.g. carro聽 [k谩ro]), at the beginning of a word (rosa[r贸sa]), and after 鈥渓,鈥� 鈥渟鈥� or 鈥渘鈥澛� (alrededor, Israel, Enrique).聽聽 This study examines the standard alveolar pronunciation of multiple vibrant (r) vs. the non-standard dorsal pronunciation variant (velar or uvular) in Puerto Rican Spanish.聽 The sample for this study comes from a Facebook Comedy titled 鈥淭iti Gandinga.鈥� A total of five trained linguists and 80 Spanish speakers listened to the 10 clips from the online show: seven clips included a non-standard pronunciation of (r) and three included a standard pronunciation. The analysis shows the perceptions of the linguists and how the perceptions of the other speakers are similar or different.聽 In addition, the study includes a questionnaire in order to examine language attitudes toward the velarization/uvularization of the multiple vibrant /r/ in Puerto Rican Spanish.
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