Making a Splash: The Salience of Liquid Variation among Boston Spanish speakers
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
Abstract
This study explores how liquid variation in Spanish (laterals and rhotics) interacts with five other sociolinguistic variables among Spanish speakers in Greater Boston. Preliminary results show that highly salient features like liquid variation tend to persist across generations rather than converge with English, highlighting the role of salience in shaping dialectal variation and linguistic coherence.
Date
Oct 13, 2023 — Oct 17, 2023
Event
New Waves of Analyzing Linguistic Variation – NWAV 51
Location
New York City, NY, USA
Authors
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
(she/her)
Language Scientist (PhD, Boston University) with expertise in sociolinguistic research, dataset curation, and applied data science.