Tracing Mexican Spanish /s/: A Cross-Section of History  

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Lipski, J.M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 18 no. 3 (1994), page 223-241.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Mexican Spanish is noted for its highly resistant pronunciation of syllable- and word-final /s/, as compared with weakened or elided pronunciations found in the Caribbean and other Latin American regions, as well as in southern Spain. This pronunciation is often attributed to a combination of phonetic conservatism prompted by the presence of a viceregal capital, and the preponderance of immigrants from /s/ -retaining regions of Spain. Occasionally, a Nahuatl contribution has been suggested, namely that Nahuatl replaced early Spanish /s/ with an affricate /ts/. The present study examines data from peripheral areas of Mexico, and suggests that the contemporary resistance of final /s/ is characteristic only of urban regions, where it has gradually been spreading to rural areas and lower sociolects. It is also hypothesized that Spanish final /s/ was once more generally weakened throughout Mexico. In Mexico City, a conservative reaction aided in the partial restoration of sibilant [s]. An indirect Nahuatl contribution is also postulated, in the form of early Spanish loanwords which retained sibilant [s]. As the Nahuatl-Spanish interface broadened, these early loans were recycled back into regional varieties of Spanish, reinforcing and even augmenting the sibilant pronunciation.

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