In this research the intervocalic /d/ is studied in the linguistic community of Caracas as part of the project PRESEEA (Project for the Socio-linguistic Study Spanish in Spain and America). This is a sociolinguistic research which analyses the linguistic and extralinguistic factors influencing the weakening and elision of the /d/ internal position word in the corpus PRESEEA Caracas 2004-2010. For the acoustic analysis of 3648 cases, it was used Praat (Boersma and Weenink 2009), and GoldVarb X (Sankoff et al 2005) for the regression analysis. The results shows 58% of elision in the Caracas community. In as for the linguistic variables that influence should be highlighted the vocalic environment variables and the lexical diffusion. The social variables show little impact on the phenomenon.
Malaver, I., & Perdomo, L. (2017). The elision of /d/ intervocalic in the Caracas community. Boletín De Filología, 51(2), 147–179. Retrieved from https://revistateatro.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/44868
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