Apéndices interrogativos en el habla de Sevilla: un estudio en tiempo real
Tag Questions in Sevillian Speech: A Real Time Study

Summary/Abstract: In this investigation we studied the tag questions in Seville considering the contrast between these two periods of time: the last decades of the 20th century (samples from the Sociolingüística Andaluza group: Estudio Sociolingüístico del Habla de Sevilla) and the beginning of the 21st century (PRESEEA-SE corpus compiled by the Patrones Sociolingüísticos del Español de Sevilla project). The basic purpose is to know if the chronological factor has any influence over the registered tag questions and their vivid usage, as well over their sociolinguistic distribution. For it, we considered the following variables: educational level, age and gender. The results showed a similar behaviour between elements from the two periods of time, although with some differences in the age groups (¿no?, ¿eh?). We also noticed that there are other variants whose distribution is conditioned by the date of sample collection and, particularly, by the informants’ age (¿entiendes?, ¿verdad?, ¿vale?, ¿sabes?).

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