In:Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world
Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 29] 2020
► pp. 107–126
Chapter 5Realizations of /b/ in the Spanish of Lima, Peru
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.05yar
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.05yar
Abstract
In canonical Spanish, the letters <b> and
<v> represent the same phoneme: /b/. The phoneme has two main
allophones, essentially in complementary distribution: [b] and [β]
(Harris, 1969).
Previous research has found allophonic deviations, such as [v], [Ø],
and [w], in both monolinguals (Sadowsky, 2010) and bilinguals (Phillips, 1982; Stevens, 2000). Previous research has not
extensively explored the production of /b/ in Peruvian Spanish.
Fifty-one participants were recorded at a university in Lima, Peru
reading isolated words and paragraphs. Half of the 60 target words
were spelled with <v> and the other half with <b>. This
study supports previous literature, demonstrating that Peruvian
Spanish produces two complementary allophones of <b>.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Literature review
- 2.1Orthography and phonetics of /b/
- 2.2Modern day use of [v]
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1Participants
- 3.2Procedure
- 3.3Materials
- 4.Analysis
- 5.Results
- 6.Discussion and conclusions
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