Natalia Mazzaro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Natalia Mazzaro is involved.
Articles
2019 Chapter 10. The perception-production connection: /tʃ/ deaffrication and rhotic assibilation in Chihuahua Spanish Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception, Chappell, Whitney (ed.), pp. 287–312 | Chapter
This study investigates the perception and production of two sociophonetic variables of Chihuahua Spanish: rhotic assibilation ([ř]), a change from above associated with women and higher classes, and deaffrication of the voiceless post-alveolar affricate ([ʃ]), a change from below associated with… read more
2016 Task-related effects in the prosody of Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Article
We compare the extent to which Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants in the United States differ in their intonation of broad focus declaratives, and propose that the between-group variability is motivated by the specific language learning/literacy conditions of each group. Results… read more
2016 Age effects and the discrimination of consonantal and vocalic contrasts in heritage and native Spanish Romance Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New York, 17-19 April, 2013, Tortora, Christina, Marcel den Dikken, Ignacio L. Montoya and Teresa O'Neill (eds.), pp. 277–300 | Article
This study explores the perception of consonantal and vocalic contrasts in two groups of Spanish-English bilingual speakers: heritage speakers and long-term immigrants. We test the discrimination of Spanish stops and mid and high vowels via an AX discrimination task with natural stimuli consisting… read more