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In:Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 28] 2020
► pp. 163–206

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Chapter 7
Rhotics in Shipibo-Konibo Spanish

A phonetic study

 | Stony Brook University
Published online: 6 August 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.28.07eli
Abstract
This chapter presents a phonetic study of the trill /r/ and the tap /ɾ/ in Shipibo-Konibo Spanish, examines their characteristics, and compares them to those found in monolingual Peruvian Amazonian Spanish. The study shows that L2 Shipibo-Konibo Spanish is not a uniform phenomenon, but rather is comprised of different varieties defined by speakers’ levels of proficiency and type of Spanish with which they are in contact. It identifies speakers of Type-I, who do not have a high level of proficiency in Spanish; speakers of Type-II, who show an advanced level as a result of their contact with rural Amazonian Spanish; and speakers of Type-III, who also have a high level of proficiency in Spanish that results from contact with urban monolingual Spanish.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Rhotics in monolingual Amazonian Spanish from the city of Pucallpa
  • 3.‘r’ in Shipibo-Konibo: The voiced retroflex affricate /ɖʐ/
  • 4.Rhotics in Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
    • 4.1Type-I Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
    • 4.2Type-II Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
    • 4.3Type-III Shipibo-Konibo Spanish
  • 5.Discussion and conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • Notes
  • References
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