Matthew Pollock
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matthew Pollock is involved.
2024 Chapter 4. A sociolinguistic study of the palatal fricative in Venezuelan Spanish Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism, Gradoville, Michael and Sean McKinnon (eds.), pp. 96–119 | Chapter
The Spanish palatal fricative /ʝ/, a site of considerable social variation, is examined in Caracas, Venezuela, comparing productions across a 20-year period. Based on spectrographic and acoustic analyses, we identify four allophones of the palatal fricative. While approximant use in Caracas has… read more
2024 Chapter 2. Politics, variation, and politeness on Andalusian Twitter (X): The second-person plural in Peninsular Spanish identity construction Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism, Gradoville, Michael and Sean McKinnon (eds.), pp. 44–68 | Chapter
This study focuses on sociolinguistic variation and politeness on the social media platform Twitter (X) to track the decline in the second person plural ustedes form among politicians in southern and northern-central Spain. An analysis of politeness in computer-mediated communication (CMC)… read more
2023 Chapter 5. The emergence of sound change in two varieties of Spanish: A usage-based analysis of variable trill /r/ production in Caracas, Venezuela, and Caguas, Puerto Rico Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation, Fernández Cuenca, Sara, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller (eds.), pp. 106–129 | Chapter
We examine social and linguistic factors, including lexical frequency, that influence variable production of the alveolar rhotic trill in Caracas, Venezuela, and the region surrounding Caguas, Puerto Rico. Two categories of rhotic productions are established: non-innovative trills with two or… read more
2020 Chapter 6. Did you say peso or beso ? The perception of prevoicing by L2 Spanish learners Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world, Sessarego, Sandro, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli (eds.), pp. 127–162 | Chapter
The Perceptual Assimilation Model for L2 speakers and the Speech Learning Model make predictions about the difficulty of acquisition based on pre-existing boundaries in learners’ L1s. This study focuses on differences between voice onset time in English and Spanish stops, especially related to… read more