Jennifer Lang-Rigal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jennifer Lang-Rigal is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 4. The peaks and valleys of Córdoba [speech]: Suprasegmental cues and their role in the perception of dialect Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: In honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Amengual, Mark and Amanda Dalola (eds.), pp. 96–114 | Chapter
This study aims to determine what suprasegmental features may be perceived in the identification of a Córdoba (Argentina) dialect. Impressionistic studies described a lengthened pre-tonic vowel and early peak alignment (Fontanella de Weinberg, 1971; Yorio, 1973). The F0 of the peak and valley… read more
2020 Prosody perception meets language attitudes: Vowel lengthening, status judgments, and stereotypes in Argentina New Approaches to Language Attitudes in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bugel, Talia and Cecilia Montes-Alcalá (eds.), pp. 11–38 | Chapter
A long pre-tonic vowel is associated with the regional variety of Cordoban Spanish in Argentina (Lang-Rigal, 2015a). This paper seeks to discover how, and if, prosodic production is correlated with perceived competence. Listeners judged the intelligence and occupation of anonymous speakers based… read more
2015 Dialect identification and listener attributes: Do you hear la tonada? Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact, Klassen, Rachel, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela (eds.), pp. 269–292 | Article
This study investigates the perception of vowel-lengthening, a feature characteristic of the Spanish spoken in Córdoba, Argentina: the tonada cordobesa. Uniquely, the lengthening occurs on the pre-tonic syllable (Fontanella de Weinberg, 1971; Yorio, 1973; Lang, 2010), and is believed to be… read more