R2.18 - recommendations: speaker variety familiarity

[jvcasillas]

p. 31 - line 5 - The idea that there is one “US Spanish” is very controversial. US Spanishes still have the characteristics of the varieties of origin, so even though respondents are familiar with Spanish spoken in the U.S. they would be exposed to Mexican Spanish, Dominican Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish, etc. as spoken in the US. Looking at which region of the country respondents were from could be helpful in understanding this.

Action: Good point. Probably going to have to scrap this. See also https://github.com/RAP-group/empathy_intonation_perc/issues/40

[GabrielaConstantin-Dureci]

I also agree with the reviewer's comment. One way around this could be to add something like:

"Furthermore, while participants mentioned familiarity with U.S. Spanish, it should be noted that this variety is not a monolith, but rather carries traits of the original Spanish variety (e.g., Mexican, Puerto Rican) that was in contact with English."

I'm also thinking we could refer to U.S. Spanish as a construct ...but that would open a bit of a discussion I'm afraid, so we might have to elaborate. If we were to pick "construct", we could say "Furthermore, while participants mentioned familiarity with U.S. Spanish, it should be noted that this construct does not refer to a single variety, but rather tomultiple varieties that carry the traits of the original Spanish variety (e.g., Mexican, Puerto Rican) that was in contact with English." (I'm not a fan of how many times I said "variety").

[jvcasillas]

Included via https://github.com/RAP-group/empathy_intonation_perc/pull/76.

We agree with the point made by the reviewer. We did not expect to obtain "US Spanish" as the most familiar variety from our participants. We have added a footnote after the referred sentence to reflect some of the points made by the reviewer.

While participants mentioned familiarity with U.S. Spanish, it should be noted that this variety is not a monolith, but rather carries traits of the original Spanish variety (e.g., Mexican, Puerto Rican) that is in contact with English.

Additionally, we have included an exploratory analysis of variety familiarity in the revised discussion. The reviewer is referred to Figure \@ref(fig:plot-learner-variety-familiarity) and Table \@ref(tab:table-learner-variety-familiarity-conditional-effects) above, as well as the discussion section and the supplementary materials.