Men, women and lenition: Gender differences in the production of intervocalic voiced stops in Mexican Spanish

Auteurs-es

  • Anna Limanni Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, Victoria College, 2081 Charles Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7, Canada

Mots-clés :

Gender differences, Picture identification

Résumé

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.

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Publié-e

2009-09-01

Comment citer

1.
Limanni A. Men, women and lenition: Gender differences in the production of intervocalic voiced stops in Mexican Spanish. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 1 sept. 2009 [cité 18 mai 2026];37(3):194-5. Disponible à: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2200

Numéro

Vol. 37 No. 3 (2009)

Rubrique

Actes du congrès de la Semaine canadienne d'acoustique

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