The spanish dialect spoken in Noanamito - Colombia

This paper presents a description of the Spanish dialect spoken in Noanamito - 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 phonologicalfeat...

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Autores:
Castro Garcés, Angela Yicely
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2010
Institución:
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
Repositorio:
RED: Repositorio Educativo Digital UAO
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:red.uao.edu.co:10614/11861
Acceso en línea:
http://red.uao.edu.co//handle/10614/11861
Palabra clave:
Español - Lexicografía
Afrodescendientes
Rasgos distintivos (Lingüística)
Spanish language - Lexicography
Afrodescendants
Distinctive features (Linguistics)
Spanish dialect
African descent
Lexical
Phonological features
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openAccess
License
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Summary:This paper presents a description of the Spanish dialect spoken in Noanamito - 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 phonologicalfeatures 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 ‘to be’; and e) fricatives /s/ & /f/ shifted to [h] word initially. Some lexical features that are characteristic ofthis 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). The paper is structured in four parts: 1) Introduction; 2) Method; 3) Data analysis; 4) Conclusion