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The current study examines the extent to which perceptual factors may account for the emergence of assibilated
variants of the alveopalatal approximant /j/ in two geographically remote varieties of Spanish. Participants from Medellin,
Colombia and Santiago, Dominican Republic completed a discrimination task and a matched guise. Both tasks presented listeners with
stimuli containing affricate [ʤ] and approximant [j] allophones of /j/. Participants were more accurate when discriminating
between sound pairs that included the affricate allophone, suggesting that the presence of (af)frication is a salient acoustic cue
upon which judgments are reliably made. Therefore, we argue that the emergence of assibilated variants ([ʤ], [ʒ]) can be explained
in part by more prominent acoustic cuing and thus greater perceptual salience. Evidence of the relationship between these findings
and a possible sound change in progress is observed in the association of social characteristics with [ʤ] and [j].
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Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, European Reference Index for the Humanities, Sociological abstracts, INIST, Linguistic Bibliography, Scopus
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