A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals’ Divergence with Agreement

Abstract Does bilingual language influence in the domain of phonetics impact the morphosyntactic domain? Spanish gender is encoded by word-final, unstressed vowels (/a e o/), which may diphthongize in word-boundary vowel sequences. English neutralizes unstressed final vowels and separates across-word vocalic sequences. The realization of gender vowels as schwa, due to cross-linguistic influence, may remain […]

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Gender marking under disguise: phonetics and grammar in Spanish-English bilinguals

Paper presented at the 50th Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages, University of Texas, Austin (held virtually). http://sites.utexas.edu/lsrl50/ Spanish gender is encoded by three vowels (/a e o/) which appear in unstressed final position.This is the same position in which vocalic contrasts are neutralized in English. Word final vowels are often followed by other vowels […]

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