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"Voiceless Stop Aspiration in Yucatec Spanish"

Abigail Chi Baack< /p>

Friday, December 1
9:00–10:30 a.m. EST

Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library

In this pr esentation, Abigail Chi Baack explores voiceless stop aspiration in Yuca tec Spanish, in which such a fortition process is most likely contact-in duced. The study draws on data from three Mayan communities in the Yucat an Peninsula, including speakers with different degrees of bilingualism. This variety of Spanish is reported to exhibit distinct phonological ph enomena influenced by contact with Yucatec Maya, including voiceless sto p aspiration, vowel lengthening, and fortition of voiced stops (Michnowi cz, 2006, 2009, Michnowicz & Carpenter, 2013). Here, Voice Onset Tim e (VOT) was used as the acoustic measure to look at burst duration in vo iceless stops /p, t, k/. Tokens were extracted from recordings of sociol inguistic interviews conducted in the summer of 2021. The study employs a variationist linguistic approach, considering both linguistic and soci al constraints on variation in spontaneous speech. Preliminary results i ndicate community-specific VOT durations, shedding light on the nuanced phonological dynamics shaped by linguistic contact.

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