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A B S T R A C TThe region of Murcia has historically been a transition area of southeastern Spain where many different cultures and civilizations have met, and the Spanish spoken in Murcia is a transitional variety sharing features with Valencian Catalan, Castilian, Aragonese, and Andalusian Spanish. Murcia is traditionally characterized as an eminently nonstandard-speaking region. The aim of this study is to analyze the possible relationship between the geolinguistic patterns of diffusion of standard Castilian Spanish over the Murcian territory and the increasing use of standard forms in this traditionally nonstandard area. For this purpose, the adoption of Castilian Spanish features by Murcian speakers is correlated with interaction and exposure to innovations. The real presence or absence of some degree of standardization as well as its intraregional variation indicates whether the detected geographical patterns of linguistic uniformity apply to Murcia. (dialects in contact, diffusion, geolinguistic patterns, gravity models, standardization.)* I N T R O D U C T I O NThe relationship between the regional transmission of linguistic phenomena and geographical factors -such as topographical features and communication networks -constitutes a paradigm whose existence as a field of study is older than that of the covariation of linguistic and social phenomena. However, as Gerritsen 1988 and Britain 1991, 2002 point out, its systematic observation and the application of models from human geography to describe and explain the geographical distribution and behavior of linguistic phenomena is rather recent (see particu-. If the consideration of who talks to whom, when, how, and with what purpose is an important postulate in sociolinguistic research, in the same way geolinguistic studies find great relevance in the study of where that action is done on a macro level, where a linguistic community is physically located, its interurban status (form, demographic size, function, historical transformations, etc.), its possible interaction and relationship with other communities, and why linguistic innovations appear and spread from one

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