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Table 22. Exclusive linguistic differences when contrasted with default variety:
qualitative overview

Feature description And Gal Can Arg Mex Fra Ger BrE AmE

/r/ as uvular fricative

marked tone unit clause final 9

marked tone unit interrogative mood

/Ɵ/ as [s]

final and checked /s/ dropped

final /r/ dropped 9

intervocalic /s/ as marked aspiration 9

isolated vowel change (apatece)

final /l/ as [ł]

/r/ as back uvular 9

/y/ as [ʒ] or [ʃ] 9

/d/ as alveolar

marked tone unit exclamative mood 9

aspirated initial /t/ 9

vowel changes: close e/o, [æ] for [a] 9

Table 23. Exclusive linguistic differences when contrasted with default variety:
quantitative overview
Distinctive
features

Exclusive

features

Frequent

features

Linguistic

awareness

Social

awareness

Andalucía 4 1

Galicia 3 1

Canarias 4 1

Argentina 3 1

Mexico 2 1

France 4 1

Germany 3 0

Br. Eng. 4 1

Am. Eng. 3 1

Exclusiveness, then, does not explain the order of correct identification,
either. What the lack of exclusive features in the German speech fragment
might help to explain, though, is the fact that it is the only accent for which