Phonetic Variation in the Use of pues, luego, and entonces by Spanish Speakers from Salinas, California
Description
The use of discourse markers (DMs) is present in speech to both structure and organize the discourse (Fung & Carter, 2007). However, despite the different studies about the use of DMs, less attention has been paid to specific Spanish DMs such as pues, ‘so, well’ luego, ‘then, therefore’ and entonces ‘so, then’ about their reduction. The focus of this study is on the phonetic variation of these DMs from a corpus of speakers of Mexican Spanish from Salinas, California (Brown & Alba, 2017). This paper analyzed dependent and independent variables to show their influence on the reduction of DMs. Also, chunking phenomena and special reduction were part of the study as they can reflect patterns of change in the language.
Date Created
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2021-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Quimbaya, Yazmin
- Thesis director: Gradoville, Michael
- Committee member: Fernández, SofÃa
- Committee member: Brown, Earl Kjar
- Contributor (ctb): School of International Letters and Cultures
- Contributor (ctb): Department of English
- Contributor (ctb): Department of English
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College