Eliot Raynor
List of John Benjamins publications in which Eliot Raynor is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 11. The contact origin(s) of ‘hand’ and ‘foot’ > ‘limb’ in Antioquian Spanish: Tracing historical adult L1 transfer Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 264–293 | Chapter
This study examines the semantic extension of mano ‘hand’ and pie ‘foot’ to their contemporary senses of ‘upper limb’ and ‘lower limb’ in Spanish varieties of Antioquia, Colombia. This dialectally idiosyncratic pattern, hitherto unexplained in the literature, is accounted for here as the… read more
2023 The role of perceptual salience in a strengthening sound change: A comparison of /j/ perception by Colombian and Dominican listeners Spanish in Context 20:3, pp. 411–437 | Article
The current study examines the extent to which perceptual factors may account for the emergence of assibilated variants of the alveopalatal approximant /j/ in two geographically remote varieties of Spanish. Participants from Medellin, Colombia and Santiago, Dominican Republic completed a… read more
