TY - JOUR
T1 - The variable effect of form and lemma frequencies on phonetic variation
T2 - Evidence from/s/realization in two varieties of Colombian Spanish
AU - Brown, Earl K.
AU - Gradoville, Michael S.
AU - File-Muriel, Richard J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Munich/Boston.
PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - Research has shown that frequency conditions the variable realization of sounds. However, the literature has not addressed whether the frequency of the individual word forms, or form frequency, has a larger conditioning effect than the combined frequencies of the members of the paradigm to which the forms belong, or lemma frequency. Monofactorial correlation tests and monofactorial and multifactorial linear regression analyses are performed on 2,734 tokens of Spanish/s/in sociolinguistic interviews conducted in Cali and Barranquilla, Colombia. Two findings are highlighted: (1) frequency is only significant in the variety of Spanish that has low overall rates of/s/reduction, Cali, and (2) form frequency is more influential than lemma frequency.
AB - Research has shown that frequency conditions the variable realization of sounds. However, the literature has not addressed whether the frequency of the individual word forms, or form frequency, has a larger conditioning effect than the combined frequencies of the members of the paradigm to which the forms belong, or lemma frequency. Monofactorial correlation tests and monofactorial and multifactorial linear regression analyses are performed on 2,734 tokens of Spanish/s/in sociolinguistic interviews conducted in Cali and Barranquilla, Colombia. Two findings are highlighted: (1) frequency is only significant in the variety of Spanish that has low overall rates of/s/reduction, Cali, and (2) form frequency is more influential than lemma frequency.
KW - Colombian Spanish
KW - Spanish/s/
KW - activation state
KW - form frequency
KW - frequency effects
KW - lemma frequency
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U2 - 10.1515/cllt-2013-0025
DO - 10.1515/cllt-2013-0025
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84908167261
SN - 1613-7027
VL - 10
SP - 213
EP - 241
JO - Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
JF - Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
IS - 2
ER -