A sociophonetic account of gradient /z/ devoicing among Chicanx high schoolers

This paper examines final /z/ devoicing among Chicanx teens in Southern California to investigate the degree to which devoiced final /z/ neutralizes with final /s/ in this dialect. Results indicate on the one hand that devoiced /z/ remains distinct from /s/: as expected, devoiced /z/ is significantl...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Language variation and change 2022-07, Vol.34 (2), p.165-182
Hauptverfasser:	Holliday, Nicole, Brogan, Franny D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acoustics American English Dialects Fricatives Hispanic Americans Latin American cultural groups Morphology Phonology Regional dialects Salience Secondary school students Sociophonetics Sound duration Voicing Vowels
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