Detailing the impact of social variables on the production of the Catalan mid-vowel contrasts by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals

• Kotsoni, Zoi ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Estudios de fonética experimental, ISSN 1575-5533, ISSN-e 2385-3573, Nº. 33, 2024, págs. 57-68
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1344/efe-2024-33-57-68
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Analitzant l’impacte de les variables socials en la producció dels contrastos de vocals mitjanes catalanes dels primers bilingües castellà-català
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  • català

    Aquest estudi investiga la variabilitat en la producció de vocals catalanes per part d’adults barcelonins, joves, de mitjana edat i grans, parlants de català central. El grau d’exposició i ús del català central varia entre parlants; la meitat dels participants són migrants de segona generació i de generacions posteriors d’altres regions d’Espanya, en què l’idioma vernacle és el castellà. Tots els parlants han nascut, crescut i s'han escolaritzat a Barcelona, i han adquirit tant el català central com el castellà. El català central posseeix dos conjunts de vocals mitjanes fonèmiques (/e/–/ε/ i /o/–/ↄ/), a diferència del castellà, que té una sola vocal per conjunt (/e/ i /o/). L'estudi té l'objectiu de detallar els contrastos vocàlics mitjans-anteriors i mitjans-posteriors catalans utilitzats per parlants de diferent gènere, edat, ús lingüístic i exposició al català de la comunitat de parla bilingüe de Barcelona.

  • English

    The present study investigates variability in the production of Catalan vowels by Barcelona young, middle-aged, and older adults who speak the Central Catalan variety. The degree of exposure to and use of Central Catalan varies among speakers as half of the participants are second-generation and subsequent-generation migrants from other regions of Spain, where the vernacular is Spanish. All speakers have been born, raised, and schooled in Barcelona, and have acquired both Central Catalan and Spanish. Central Catalan possesses two sets of phonemic mid-vowels (/e/–/ε/ and /o/–/ↄ/), unlike Spanish which has a single vowel per set (/e/ and /o/). This study aims to detail the Catalan mid-front and mid-back vowel contrasts used by speakers of different gender, age, language use, and exposure to Catalan from the bilingual speech community of Barcelona.

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