Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish

Colombia is, after Mexico, the second country with the largest number of Spanish speakers in the Hispanic world. More than 90% of their 48 million inhabitants are native speakers of Spanish. Colombian Spanish is a grouping of the varieties of Spanish spoken in this country with specific pronunciati...

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Main Author: Jasmina Markič
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Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2017-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/5734
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description Colombia is, after Mexico, the second country with the largest number of Spanish speakers in the Hispanic world. More than 90% of their 48 million inhabitants are native speakers of Spanish. Colombian Spanish is a grouping of the varieties of Spanish spoken in this country with specific pronunciation, intonation and, especially, vocabulary. The article deals with some relevant phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish, some of them shared with other Hispano-American regions, for instance the seseo (/θ/ merges with /s/), and other phenomena present in two Colombian superdialects as defined by Montes Giraldo (the presence or absence of implosive -s or the loss of intervocalic -d-). The article also deals with the extension of yeísmo, a merger of /ʎ/ into /ʝ/, in the area of Bogotá and with some phonetic phenomena of the creole language palenquero. The analysis is based on examples from spoken Colombian Spanish corpus PRESEEA and other sources.
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spelling doaj.art-a7830b7351064ceaba3af57a8c549c072023-01-18T09:49:38ZdeuUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Linguistica0024-39222350-420X2017-12-0157110.4312/linguistica.57.1.185-196Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian SpanishJasmina Markič0University of Ljubljana Colombia is, after Mexico, the second country with the largest number of Spanish speakers in the Hispanic world. More than 90% of their 48 million inhabitants are native speakers of Spanish. Colombian Spanish is a grouping of the varieties of Spanish spoken in this country with specific pronunciation, intonation and, especially, vocabulary. The article deals with some relevant phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish, some of them shared with other Hispano-American regions, for instance the seseo (/θ/ merges with /s/), and other phenomena present in two Colombian superdialects as defined by Montes Giraldo (the presence or absence of implosive -s or the loss of intervocalic -d-). The article also deals with the extension of yeísmo, a merger of /ʎ/ into /ʝ/, in the area of Bogotá and with some phonetic phenomena of the creole language palenquero. The analysis is based on examples from spoken Colombian Spanish corpus PRESEEA and other sources. https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/5734Colombian SpanishPhoneticsseseoyeísmodialects
spellingShingle Jasmina Markič
Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish
Linguistica
Colombian Spanish
Phonetics
seseo
yeísmo
dialects
title Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish
title_full Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish
title_fullStr Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish
title_short Phonetic and phonological aspects of Colombian Spanish
title_sort phonetic and phonological aspects of colombian spanish
topic Colombian Spanish
Phonetics
seseo
yeísmo
dialects
url https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/5734
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