Contact effects on voice-onset time (VOT) in Patagonian Welsh
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Linguistics
- Degree Supervisor:
- Matthew Gordon
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2015
- Issued Date:
- 2015
- Topics:
- Linguistics and Language
- Keywords:
- Patagonia,
Welsh,
VOT,
Language contact,
Y Wladfa, and
Wales - Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- M.A.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
- Description:
The effects of language contact extend well beyond the borrowing of lexical items, and can include morphosyntactic, phonetic, and phonological changes over time (Thomason & Kaufman 1998). One especially common structural outcome of long-term contact is phonetic transfer (Matras 2009:222). The Welsh spoken in Patagonia, which has been in close contact with Spanish for the past 150 years, offers one potential example of this phenomenon: Jones (1984) observes that younger speakers of Patagonian Welsh may be developing unaspirated voiceless stops /p t k/ as a result of Spanish contact.
This paper measures the voice-onset time (VOT) of the Welsh voiceless stops /p t k/ using contemporary conversational speech data from both Patagonia and Wales, for male and female speakers in three age groups (0-29, 30-59, and 60+), to examine the effects of Spanish contact on Patagonian Welsh. Results indicate that the tendencies seen in Jones (1984) have held true, and in fact have generalized to become a feature of Patagonian Welsh for speakers of all ages: Patagonian speakers produce the Welsh stops /p t k/ with significantly shorter VOT values than speakers from Wales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (31 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:10011407
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f379446x
- ISBN:
- 9781339472362
- Catalog System Number:
- 990046180170203776
- Copyright:
- Morgan Sleeper, 2015
- Rights:
In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Morgan Sleeper
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