An Acoustic Description of Aragonese Spanish

Albesa Pedrola, Elena (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Herrero de Haro, Alfredo

Resumen: This paper aims to offer a comprehensive acoustic description of Aragonese Spanish. The analysis is based on spoken samples from 25 speakers of Aragonese Spanish. The current study includes an analysis of the phonetic characteristics of vowel, including diphthongs and triphthongs, of consonants and of prosody. Furthermore, the present paper also analyses the allophones of Aragonese Spanish and some phonetic processes, such as spirantization of voiced stops in intervocalic position and vowel nasalization. In the final section, the reader can find a phonetic and phonological transcription of a text. The present paper aims to provide detailed account of the phonetic structure of Aragonese Spanish in order to contribute to our understanding of phonetic variation in Spanish.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1344/DIALECTOLOGIA.34.1

Año: 2025

Publicado en: Dialectologia 34 (2025), 1-38
ISSN: 2013-2247

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Lengua Española (Dpto. Lingüíst.y Liter.Hispán.)