Sobre el equilibrado reajuste de las hablas andaluzas
About the Balanced Adjustment of the Andalusian Speech

Summary/Abstract: With this project, we intend to reflect on the general features that have led to various processes of linguistic change detected in Andalusia. As a starting point, we will take into account the results obtained in the studies carried out over previous years, especially those undertaken by the research teams of the PRESEAA project in Andalusia. In this study, we intend to determine the social and linguistic patterns that have contributed to the two sets of changes that are still present in Andalusia today. The first set relates to the sounds located at the syllabic onset; changes which have their origin in upper classes and therefore imply an open prestige. The second set consists of sounds located in syllabic coda, which had their origin in the lower and middle classes and that therefore go from down to top and have local prestige. The first ones tend to the koineization of the differential features of the Andalusian varieties and to homogenize with the standard. The second ones, on the other hand, tend to diverge from the standard and have led to a segmentation of the territory in different dialectal areas. This panorama of contradictory tendencies leads us to wonder what are the identity features of the Andalusian.

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