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/ʎ/ and /j/ are suffering a merger process in Spanish. In contrast, in Catalan these phonemes are said to be maintained. However, there seems to be a certain merger tendency in Majorcan Catalan, at least when producing the sounds. This paper is concerned with checking if Majorcan bilinguals do still perceive the contrast. The results point that they are losing it even in the auditory domain.
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This page is a summary of: Bilingualism and sound change: perception in the /ʎ/-/j/ merger process in Majorcan Spanish, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP), March 2020, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zrp-2020-0005.
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