Name: The Loss of Intervocalic (in English)
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Author: Varios Autores
ISBN: 9788413111483

portada The Loss of Intervocalic (in English)

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Physical Book

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Universidad Salamanca

Author

Varios Autores

Synopsis "The Loss of Intervocalic (in English)"

Summary/ sinopsis: the loss of intervocalic/d/ is a very widespread phenomenon in European Spanish, where it appears in contexts in which it would be impossible in other spanish-speaking regions. Many studies address this subject from different perspectives, but they only offer a partial view of the situation in the iberian peninsula. The present work provides an overview of the phenomenon in European peninsular Spanish based on the data from two corporal that cover most of the territory, namely the Linguistic Atlas of the iberian peninsula (alpi) and the audible Corpus or rural spoken Spanish (coser). the study of these data, both geographically and with quantitative analyses, offers New insights into the situation and Evolution of the phenomenon. Table of contents/ índice: 1. Introduction. 1.1. Lenition in Spanish consonants: why/d/ | 1.2. State of affairs. 1.2.1. Usage-based theories and the role of Frequency. 1.2.2. The elision of intervocalic/d/ in previous studies. 2. First study: Linguistic Atlas of the iberian peninsula (alpi). 2.1. Corpus and method | 2.2. The data: maps and first analysis. 2.2.1. Contexts radio/Ada. 2.2.2. Contexts ido/ida (and Edo). 2.2.3. Contexts como/oda. 2.2.4. Ending –dera. 2.2.5. Context udo. 2.2.6. Three vowels in contact. 2.2.7. Other cases | 2.3. Summary. 3. Second study: audible Corpus of rural spoken Spanish (coser). 3.1. Corpus and method | 3.2. The data. 3.2.1. Contexts radio/Ada. Morpheme –dor. 3.2.2. Contexts ido/ida. 3.2.3. Lemmas todo and todavía. 3.2.4. Nada and cada | 3.3. Summary. 4. Analysis. 4.1. Individual analysis. 4.1.1. Geography and language contact. 4.1.2. Vocal context. 4.1.3. Stress position. 4.1.4. Grammatical nature. 4.1.5. Morphological boundary. 4.1.6. Grammatical category. 4.1.7. Number of syllables. 4.1.8. Consonantal environment. 4.1.9. Repetition. 4.1.10. Frequency | 4.2. Statistical analysis | 4.3. Summary. 5. Special cases. 5.1 diminutives | 5.2. Initial intervocalic position: the prepositon de ‘of’. 5.2.1. Preposition de in alpi. 5.2.2. Summary. 6. Conclusions. References appendices. Appendix 1: questions from alpi | appendix 2: summary of coser data (voronoi polygons) | appendix 3: random Forest method in detail list of maps, Pictures and tables