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      Velar palatalization in Chilean public speech

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          This is a socio-phonetic study that employs an acoustic analysis and a speech accommodation analysis following a variationist sociolinguistic framework. The acoustic analysis provides a phonetic characterization of the variation of /x/ in Chilean Spanish using spectrographic support, which fills a gap in current literature on this specific sound change. The linear regression analysis and speech accommodation analysis work together to identify the motivators for velar palatalization in this variety of Spanish and its acquisition of overt prestige. The results of this study update previous literature on Chilean palatalization regarding internal and external motivators, while adding variant usage patterns based on interlocutor age effects and speech style differences. Public speech data is used in this study to show the extension of velar palatalization into the most formal registers of Chilean Spanish.

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                Contributors
                Journal
                2397-1835
                Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
                Ubiquity Press
                2397-1835
                13 May 2016
                : 1
                : 1
                : 6
                Affiliations
                [-1]Department of Languages and Literature, University of Utah, 255 S. Central Campus Drive, LNCO 1400, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, US
                Article
                10.5334/gjgl.105
                a9c42b88-1abf-4939-8bc7-1adcedd67d06
                Copyright: © 2016 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                Special issue: palatalisation

                General linguistics,Linguistics & Semiotics
                center of gravity,speech accommodation,Palatalized fricative

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