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/S/ Variation as Accommodation

Author(s) -

Felice Anne Coles

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

kansas working papers in linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2378-7600

pISSN - 1043-3805

DOI - 10.17161/kwpl.1808.309

Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , accommodation , casual , pronunciation , linguistics , psychology , identification (biology) , political science , philosophy , physics , neuroscience , astrophysics , botany , law , biology

The few remaining fluent speakers of isleno dialect of Spanish vary their casual pronunciation of /s/ in a manner consistent with, but not identical to, other caribbean Spanish dialects. The behavior of /s/ in the speech of nonfluent islenos parallels that of fluent speakers, differing only in the higher degree of aspiration and deletion. This variation by isleno semispeakers can be regarded as a type of speech accomodation called 'upward convergence' expressing social integration and identification

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