Bilingualism

What we say when we say nothing at all: Clues to contact-induced language change in Spanish conversational pause-fillers featured image

What we say when we say nothing at all: Clues to contact-induced language change in Spanish conversational pause-fillers

A study of filled pause vowel quality (eh/em vs. ah/am/uh/um) among 80 Boston Spanish speakers, finding that degree of English contact predicts which variant speakers use — …

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Daniel G. Erker
Filled pauses as a site of language contact among Spanish-speaking Bostonians featured image

Filled pauses as a site of language contact among Spanish-speaking Bostonians

Presenting QP 1 results at LSA 2021.

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
English/Spanish Contrastive Phonology & Filled Pauses featured image

English/Spanish Contrastive Phonology & Filled Pauses

Guest Lecture for Intro to Sounds class

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Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
Filled Pauses & Language Contact in Boston Spanish featured image

Filled Pauses & Language Contact in Boston Spanish

How bilingual experience reshapes the vowel quality of filled pauses (uh/ah vs. eh) in Boston Spanish speakers.