TY - JOUR AU - Limanni, Anna PY - 2009/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Men, women and lenition: Gender differences in the production of intervocalic voiced stops in Mexican Spanish JF - Canadian Acoustics JA - Canadian Acoustics VL - 37 IS - 3 SE - Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada DO - UR - https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2200 SP - 194-195 AB - A study was conducted to investigate the effects of gender in the realization of intervocalic in Mexican Spanish. The study conducted a test to demonstrate that significant gender differences existed in the degrees of lenition of the consonants b, d, and g used in Mexican Spanish. Data were collected from a total of six native speakers of a similar variety of the language to conduct the test. Data were collected from an interview where the speakers performed a number of significant tasks. Some of these tasks included a picture identification task and a story-telling task where the speakers were given three sets of sequential pictures and asked to relate the events in each set. These tasks were designed to encourage a casual and conversational style of speech. ER -