The sociolinguistics of Castilian dialects
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Isabel Molina
Abstract
This article reviews some variable processes active in urban Castilian speech: the yeísmo, the treatment of the intervocalic -|d|-, the relaxation or the emphasis of the implosive -|s| and -|d|, the leísmo, laísmo, and loísmo and the replacement of the subjunctive with the conditional. The objective here is to examine who is driving these changes, the direction they are taking, and what prompts their spread or disappearance. The analysis confirms a movement of convergence from the periphery with the center, which is becoming more marked among higher sociocultural levels, but is also affecting the lower strata whereby the dialectical variations lose the prestige that is enjoyed in the cities.
© 2008 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Introduction: a sociolinguistic panorama of Spanish in Spain
- A methodological approach to the history of the sociolinguistics of the Spanish language
- The sociolinguistics of Castilian dialects
- Spanish and historical dialect in Aragon
- Sociolinguistic issues of Madrid
- The sociolinguistics of Spanish in Extremadura
- Sociolinguistic aspects of Murcian Spanish
- Sociolinguistic patterns of Andalusian Spanish
- Sociolinguistics aspects of Spanish in the Canary Islands
- Immigrants in Spain: sociolinguistic issues
- Book reviews
- L'Alguer (Alghero), a Catalan linguistic enclave in Sardinia
