In this paper, results of a study on the geographic variation of the phoneme /r/ in the speech of Chilean professionals of eight different cities (Iquique, La Serena, Valparaíso, Santiago, Concepción, Temuco, Coyhaique y Punta Arenas) performing a reading-aloud task are presented. The results show that most of the realizations for the phoneme /r/ correspond to the approximant, apicoalveolar consonant [], regardless of the participant’s geographical origin and the gender.
Keywords:
trill, approximant, reading-aloud task, phonetics and phonology, Chilean Spanish
Retamal Venegas, N., & Soto-Barba, J. (2017). Acoustic and perceptual characteristics of Spanish /r/ in educated participants from eight Chilean cities in a reading aloud task. Boletín De Filología, 52(1), pp. 245–271. Retrieved from https://revistatrabajo.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/47584