Articulación de sonidos líquidos en el español sinomexicano. Adquisición fonológica de L2 en una situación de contacto lingüístico

Liquid sound articulation in Chinese-Mexican Spanish. Acquisition of L2 phonology in a language contact situation. (2025). Semas, 6(11), 96-119. https://doi.org/10.61820/semas.2683-3301.v6n11.157

Abstract

The habla de chino is a literary imitation of the FL Spanish of Chinese origin speakers, where phonological processes reveal simplification and crosslinguistic interference, resulting in relatively homogeneous solutions. In this linguistic stereotype, every rhotic sound systematically undergoes a process of lateralization. A detailed analysis of the liquid production in naturally-occurring data from a corpus of nearly fourteen hours of the FL Spanish of bilingual speakers in a Chinese-Mexican community indicates a much more diverse phonological articulation. The different articulations that comprise the system of liquid production in Chinese-Mexican FL Spanish demonstrate a series of articulations ruled by phonetic, phonotactic, and syllabic factors that influence their production in their FL Spanish.

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