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Ramos, Jorge E.; Shea, Christine – Hispania, 2023
In this study we show that the perception of lateral variants by Puerto Rican listeners changes according to who the listener believes is speaking. Puerto Rican listeners heard sentences with target words featuring either rhotic [voiced alveolar tap or flap] or lateral [l] (amo[voiced alveolar tap or flap] -- amo[l]) codas, a sociophonetic…
Descriptors: Race, Racism, Puerto Ricans, Language Variation