On the social and linguistic implications of unstressed vowel weakening in Cochabambino Spanish

Abstract

This article offers an analysis of the social and linguistic factors affecting unstressed vowel weakening (UVW) phenomena in a little studied Andean dialect, Cochabambino Spanish. This work is also the first analysis of Spanish UVW that relies on data collected through a read-aloud task.

Keywords

• Cochabambino Spanish
• unstressed vowel weakening
• H&H Theory
• read-aloud task