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Vol. 14:2 (2017) ► pp.159–185

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Aspirates and ejectives in Quechua-influenced Spanish

 | The Ohio State University
Published online: 19 October 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.14.2.01bab
Abstract
This article describes the use of aspirates and ejectives in a variety of Spanish with significant Quechua contact influence that is spoken in the Santa Cruz valleys of central Bolivia. Aspirates and ejectives occur primarily on Quechua loanwords, making these ‘intermediate phonological relationships’ (Hall, Kathleen Currie. 2013. “A typology of intermediate phonological relationships.” The Linguistic Review 30(2): 215–275. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) that are hard to categorize with respect to their status as phonetic vs. phonological features. Results from a small-scale perception and shadowing task show that language users are able to distinguish between these sounds and canonical Spanish consonants in minimal pairs, but that there is variation among speakers in the way these sounds are reproduced. While the use of aspirates and glottal stops in Spanish in contact with Mayan languages has been documented (. 2015. “Maya-Spanish Contact in Yucatan, Mexico: Context and Sociolinguistic Implications.” In New Perspectives on Hispanic Contact Linguistics in the Americas, ed. by Sandro Sessarego and Melvin González Rivera, 21–42. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Michnowicz, Jim, and Laura Kagan. 2016. “On glottal stops in Yucatan Spanish.” Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis 81: 219.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) previous studies of Andean Spanish phonology have not reported the use of aspirates and ejectives as part of the sound system (Boynton, Sylvia. 1981. “A Phonemic Analysis of Monolingual Andean (Bolivian) Spanish.” In The Aymara language in its social and cultural context, ed. by Martha J. Hardman, 199–204. Gainesville, Florida: University Presses of Florida.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Cassano, P. V. 1974. “The influence of Inca phonology on contact Spanish dialects.” Orbis 23(2): 459–483.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Pyle, Ransford C. 1981. “Bolivian bilingual Spanish phonology.” In Aymara language in its social and cultural context, ed. by Martha J. Hardman, 187–198. Gainesville, Florida: University Presses of Florida.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar).
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Literature review
  • 3.Context and methods
  • 4.Quechua loanwords in central Bolivian Spanish
  • 5.Perception/production study
    • 5.1Methods
    • 5.2Results
    • 5.3Discussion
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
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