An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish
This study focuses on the acoustic characteristics of two fricative variants of /r/ in the highlands of Bolivia: a dominant postalveolar retroflex variant with or without initial linguo-palatal contact, [r̝, ʐ], present alongside a fronted variant [z]. We aim to differentiate these variants and acc...
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This study focuses on the acoustic characteristics of two fricative variants of /r/ in the highlands of Bolivia: a dominant postalveolar retroflex variant with or without initial linguo-palatal contact, [r̝, ʐ], present alongside a fronted variant [z]. We aim to differentiate these variants and account for the contexts that trigger one or the other allophone. We analyse the productions of 10 speakers reading sentences in which words were inserted, including different stress and vowel contexts where /r/ appears. For 8 speakers, the results indicate that the [z] allophone occurs in 20% of productions, while 2 speakers do not produce this variant. The centre of gravity varies significantly according to the categorisation of [ʐ] vs [z], and the appearance of [z] is favoured by a front vowel context.
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| spelling | doaj-art-397c56f79a9045f58ef1e3c2524ecb592025-08-20T03:55:11ZcatUniversitat de BarcelonaEstudios de Fonética Experimental1575-55332385-35732025-03-013410.1344/efe-2025-34-41-56An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland SpanishPhilippe Boula de Mareüil0Alexis Pierrard1Albert Rilliard2Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS, LISNUniversität Bonn, IAK Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS, LISN This study focuses on the acoustic characteristics of two fricative variants of /r/ in the highlands of Bolivia: a dominant postalveolar retroflex variant with or without initial linguo-palatal contact, [r̝, ʐ], present alongside a fronted variant [z]. We aim to differentiate these variants and account for the contexts that trigger one or the other allophone. We analyse the productions of 10 speakers reading sentences in which words were inserted, including different stress and vowel contexts where /r/ appears. For 8 speakers, the results indicate that the [z] allophone occurs in 20% of productions, while 2 speakers do not produce this variant. The centre of gravity varies significantly according to the categorisation of [ʐ] vs [z], and the appearance of [z] is favoured by a front vowel context. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/experimentalphonetics/article/view/47174fricative rhoticsBolivian Highlands of CochabambaSpanishsociophonetics |
| spellingShingle | Philippe Boula de Mareüil Alexis Pierrard Albert Rilliard An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish Estudios de Fonética Experimental fricative rhotics Bolivian Highlands of Cochabamba Spanish sociophonetics |
| title | An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish |
| title_full | An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish |
| title_fullStr | An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish |
| title_full_unstemmed | An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish |
| title_short | An acoustic study of /r/ front fricatives in Bolivian Highland Spanish |
| title_sort | acoustic study of r front fricatives in bolivian highland spanish |
| topic | fricative rhotics Bolivian Highlands of Cochabamba Spanish sociophonetics |
| url | https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/experimentalphonetics/article/view/47174 |
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