Phonological Variants and Dialect Identification in Latin American Spanish

501 Pages·1980·42.738 MB·English

by  Melvyn C. Resnick

JANUA LINGUARUM
STUDIA MEMORIAE
NICOLAI VAN WIJK DEDICATA
endenda curat
C. H. VAN SCHOONEVELD
Indiana University
Series Practica, 201

PHONOLOGICAL VARIANTS
AND DIALECT IDENTIFICATION
IN LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH
by
MELVYN C. RESNICK
Florida Atlantic University
MOUTON PUBLISHERS · THE HAGUE · PARIS · NEW YORK
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 73-80498
First edition: 1975
Second printing: 1980
ISBN: 90-279-3227-1
© Copyright 1975 by Mouton Publishers, The Hague, The Netherlands
No part of this book may be translated or reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint,
microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publishers
Printed in the Netherlands
Para Margie, fuente de
infinita paciencia y amor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Tables IX
List of Maps (Appendix B) X
Introduction, by D. Lincoln Canfield XI
Acknowledgement XV
I. The Delimiting of Dialect Zones in Latin America 1
II. An Analytical Approach to the Coordination of Phonological Dialect Data . . S
III. Specification of the Criteria of Analysis 10
Table A 12
Table B 15
Table C 20
Table D 21
Table E 23
Table F 24
Table G 26
Table H 28
Table I 30
Table! 34
Table K 36
Table L 38
Table M 39
Table N 40
IV. The Elicting and Processing of Phonological Data for Dialect Identification . 42
V. The Indexing of Dialect Data 47
Feature Index 51
Country Index 249
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bibliography 447
Abbreviations of References 447
Works cited in Chapters 1, II, III 448
Bibliographies consulted 449
Works Included in the Compilation of the Indexes 450
Appendix A. Questionnaire 455
Appendix B. Maps of the Americas 461
LIST OF TABLES
Table A/s,r,x4-y/ 12
Table B /lb,n,l-r,V/ 15
Table C Intervocalic/b,d,g/ 20
Table D /b,d,g/ after /l,r,s,y,w/ 21
Table E /c/ 23
Table F /f/ 24
Table G /!/ and /y/ 26
Table H Final /n/ 28
Table I /r/and/!/ '. . 30
Table J /7/ 34
Table K /s/ 36
Table L /x/ 38
Table Vowels 39
Table N Vos-tü . 40