«Who says “muyayo”, simplón?» Analysis of /tʃ/ in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

  • Alba Hermida Universiteit Leiden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/sys.n40.10153
Keywords: Dialectology, Synchronic Phonetics, Palatal-fricative, Canarian Spanish.

Abstract

This article seeks to provide an acoustic characterization of the phoneme /tʃ/ in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It aims to hopefully systematize this phoneme while providing an acoustic-articulatory justification, given its identity consideration in the linguistic consciousness of the speakers of the Canarian archipelago. An oral corpus with 196 samples has been stablished using the following sources: recordings of the Corpus Oral y Sonoro del Español Rural (COSER), monologues and recordings in interviews and podcasts, as well as my own fieldwork. Overall, the results reveal three articulations for /tʃ/ (under inter-island and interpersonal variation), attending to two pertinent features: the point of articulation and the longer duration of friction against occlusion. Thus, there is a semi-affricate (that is, with reduced friction) palatal-adherent realization, a prepalatal affricate and a semi-fricative palatal (with a reduction of the occlusive moment). Attending to the sociolinguistic considerations, a greater polarization was observed in the Western islands when compared to the generalization of the Eastern ones.

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Published
2022-06-15
How to Cite
Hermida, A. (2022). «Who says “muyayo”, simplón?» Analysis of /tʃ/ in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Signo & Seña, (40). https://doi.org/10.34096/sys.n40.10153
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No 40 (2021): Julio-Diciembre
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