This exploratory study presents an approach to the phonetic models of Galician Spanish (GS) by means of a small sample of six female speakers with different linguistic profiles. We analyze the production of stressed vowels, final unstressed vowels, and some intonation contours. Unlike earlier descriptions, we do not find direct transfer from Galician to the GS phonetic system. Our results show: (1) The disappearance of the Galician seven vowel system and some examples of hybridization in wh-question intonation, both of which could be seen as signs of change in GS; and (2) The reduction of the final vowels and direct transfer from Galician to GS in yes-no questions, both of which could suggest preservation of the covert prestige of Galician.
The current study analyses the intonation of three types of utterances (broad focus statements, information-seeking yes-no questions and information-seeking wh-questions) in Galician and Spanish, in order to research the effects on the intonation of the prolonged contact between these two languages in Galicia. The main aims are to detect possible hybridisation processes in the intonation of these varieties and determine whether the intonation behaviour is different depending on the language used or on the language profile of the speakers. To that end, this study presents an empirical study which analyses these three types of utterances in Spanish and Galician, produced by 22 informants with different linguistic profiles. The results indicate little variability in the intonation based on the initial and habitual languages of the speakers or the language in which they produce the corpus. However, the existence of some hybrid patterns in wh-questions has been detected. The theoretical implications of these results will be discussed within the framework of hybridisation.
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<p><span>Neste artigo preséntase unha visión panorámica dos estudos de fonética e fonoloxía galegas. Se aínda nos anos 1960 a fonética galega era practicamente descoñecida, os avances experimentados desde entón pretenden situar os estudos destas especialidades no ámbito da investigación lingüística internacional. Debido ás prioridades que ocuparon a axenda da investigación durante as décadas de 1970 e 1980, relacionadas fundamentalmente coa planificación do corpus e coa estandarización, os traballos sobre fonética galega non empezan a desenvolverse ata os anos 1990, e fano fundamentalmente no seo do Instituto da Lingua Galega. Desde entón levouse a cabo un certo número de traballos de corte experimental, tanto no estudo da fonética segmental coma na suprasegmental (fundamentalmente, a entoación). Non obstante, os recursos limitados que se dedican a esta rama da lingüística galega fai que aínda existan importantes lagoas. No tocante á fonoloxía, dentro de Galicia domina a perspectiva estruturalista, marcada pola obra de Amable Veiga. Mais desde os anos 1990 un importante número de traballos realizados desde a teoría xenerativa e dentro do marco teórico da optimidade, levados a cabo sobre todo en universidades norteamericanas, abordou a interpretación dalgúns dos aspectos máis elusivos da fonoloxía galega, que presentan implicacións teóricas de relevancia. A pesar das limitacións mencionadas, na actualidade están a desenvolverse traballos en liñas e marcos teóricos innovadores, que abren interesantes camiños para o estudo de aspectos aínda pouco tratados, como son a variación entre falantes e entre variedades ou o contacto co español, coa incorporación de perspectivas innovadoras, como o estudo da percepción relacionado coa produción.</span></p><div><span><br /></span></div>
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