Author : Angela Castro Garces
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783843387637
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (876 download)
Book Synopsis Lexical and Phonological Description of a Spanish Dialect by : Angela Castro Garces
Download or read book Lexical and Phonological Description of a Spanish Dialect written by Angela Castro Garces and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a lexical and phonological description of the Spanish dialect spoken in the town of Noanamito, Lopez de Micay, Colombia. The people who live in this community are mostly of African descent and their speech is characterized by lexical and phonological patterns that differ from the rest of the country. The following phonological features are illustrated: a) /s/ deletion and aspiration; b) the cluster /ao/ (pronunciation variant that occurs at the end of words ending in /ado/); c) final /d/ deletion; d) phonological reduction of inflected estar 'be'; and e) fricatives /s/ & /f/ shifted to [h] word initially. Some lexical features that are characteristic of this town are also described, such as: the use of the word potrillo (to refer to a canoe) or the word papiao (to refer to someone who has just eaten).