Implicit vs. Explicit Linguistic Awareness and Attitudes in Buenos Aires

Recently in sociolinguistics, the Implicit Association Task (IAT) has been used to test implicit linguistic awareness and attitudes. With the advent of this methodology, studies have been acutely concerned with the relationship between implicit measures such as the IAT and other more explicit measures. While prior studies have found a relationship between implicit and explicit awareness of variants (Campbell-Kibler 2011), this has not been the case for attitudes. Lack of correspondence between implicit and explicit attitudes has been attested to by both Pantos (2010) and Campbell-Kibler (forthcoming), with respect to foreign accented speech and regional variation in American English, respectively. The present study adds to this implicit vs. explicit discussion by examining the awareness and attitudes of sibilant devoicing in Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS).