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151287 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15853 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2012 vii, 62 p. : col. ill Masters Thesis Academic theses Text eng Takawaki, Shannon Leigh Cerron-Palomino, Alvaro Shepherd, Michael Beas, Omar Arizona State University Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2012 Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) Field of study: Spanish This study analyzes the Spanish of native speakers from Northern Mexico in order to ascertain the presence of the voiced labiodental fricative segment [v] when the sound is orthographically represented with the letter `v'. The study examines some of the internal and external factors that predict the labiodental fricative pronunciation of the letter `v'. This study is based on the theoretical framework of phonology as described by Piñeros (2009) and Hualde (2005). The study examined all instances in the data when a sound is written with the letter `v' to investigate if the sound is pronounced as the faithful voiced plosive bilabial allophone [b] of the phoneme /b/, the spirantized allophone [β], or the voiced labiodental fricative allophone [v]. Four speakers, a male and a female with an incomplete secondary education, and a male and a female with a graduate level education participated in the study. All participants were interviewed for one hour, read a word list, and read a paragraph provided by the researcher. The researcher coded the data using the phonetic analysis software Praat and all data were statistically analyzed using the multivariate software analysis program Goldvarb X in order to investigate the presence of the voiced labiodental fricative allophone [v] and predict what internal and external factors most influence its production. From this study it is obvious that the most influential factor favoring the realization of the labiodental fricative allophone [v] is orthography. When the phonetic segment was represented with the grapheme , the phonetic realization was more likely to be the labiodental fricative [v]. The level of education of the speaker and the formality of the stylistic setting were also determined to be influential factors. Speakers with a higher degree of education and stylistic settings with a higher degree of formality favored the realization of the labiodental fricative [v]. With regards to the internal factors, rather than external factors, a preceding phonological segment of a vowel or fricative dental [s] also favored the realization of the labiodental fricative [v]. sociolinguistics Bilabial plosive Labiodental fricative Northern Mexico Spanish Spanish language--Mexico, North--Pronunciation. Spanish Language Spanish language--Orthography and spelling. Spanish language--Dialects--Mexico, North. Spanish Language Orthographic loyalty in the Spanish of northern Mexican speakers