DOMINANT PANAMANIAN SPANISH DIALECTAL ALLOPHONE IN FREE VARIATION IN THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE ENGLISH VOICELESS POST-ALVEOLAR SOUNDS

Aracelis M. González-Johnson; Richard W. Cisneros

Submitted May 26, 2022

Published 2022-05-26

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): REA: Revista Científica Especializada en Educación y Ambiente

DOMINANT PANAMANIAN SPANISH DIALECTAL ALLOPHONE IN FREE VARIATION IN THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE ENGLISH VOICELESS POST-ALVEOLAR SOUNDS

Aracelis M. González-Johnson⁺⁻
Richard W. Cisneros⁺⁻

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González-Johnson, A. M., & Cisneros, R. W. (2022). DOMINANT PANAMANIAN SPANISH DIALECTAL ALLOPHONE IN FREE VARIATION IN THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE ENGLISH VOICELESS POST-ALVEOLAR SOUNDS. REA: Revista Científica Especializada En Educación Y Ambiente, 1(1), 60–84. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/rea/article/view/2913

Abstract

This research used the production of English voiceless post-alveolar sounds to measure the accuracy of the target sounds and to determine the dominant dialectal allophone voiceless post-alveolar sound in Panamanian Spanish through the frequency of usage in L2 pronunciation. Previous research has reported studies related to allophonic variations but in complementary distribution, which let this study offer a different analysis using Feature Geometry and Underspecification theory. Twenty-five Panamanian learners of English consented to a production task that comprised repeating twice a list of 58 words that had the target sounds in the study. Descriptive statistics and t-tests were performed after analyzing and coding the spectrograms of each utterance. The results showed a high percentage of usage of the Panamanian Spanish dialectal allophone [?] in the pronunciation of /t?/ and /?/ in English. The results implied that these Panamanian speakers learning English had not reached the phonemic split yet required for English. Another important conclusion based on Feature Geometry and Undespecification values suggested that in Panamanian Spanish the feature [?continuant] might be absent, which may also suggest a sound shift in the Spanish of Panamá.

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