Latin American Spanish

Theories: Origins: Indigenísta Lenz Poligenética Henríquez Ureña, Alonso Andalucista 

climatológica Wagneremigración, Boyd Bowman

 

Phonetic and Morphological features

Henríquez Ureña (Lipski pp. 9-10) Pronunciation of intervocalic /d/ Pronunciation of /g/ before [u] Opposition of /y/ /λ/ and the pronunciation of /λ/ Pronunciation of /x/ Aspiration of word-initial ‘h’ (from Early Romance /f/) Velarisation of word-final /n/ = /η/ Pronunciation of trill ‘rr’ Pronunciation of syllable-final /l/ and /r/ Pronunciation of syllable and word-final /s/   

Resnick (Lipski pp.10-11) Primary variables:

Pronunciation of syllable and word-final /s/ Pronunciation of ‘rr’ as a trill Pronunciation of /x/ as weak aspiration [h] Opposition of /y/ /λ/  Secondary variables:  Pronunciation of /b/ after /l/ Alveolar pronunciation of phrase-final /n/ Distinction between syllable-final /l/ and /r/ Full voicing of vowels  

  Rona

Žeísmo Yeísmo Presence or absence of voseo Verbal morphology used with vos

  Bibliography:  John LIPSKI, Latin American Spanish Manuel ALVAR, Manual de dialectología hispánica, el español de

América

Melvyn C. RESNICK, Phonological variants and dialect identification in Latin American Spanish.

José G. MORENO DE ALBA El Español en América María VAQUERO DE RAMIREZ El español de América / Maria Vaquero

de Ramirez. - 1 Pronunciación. Bertil MALMBERG La América hispanohablante : unidad y

diferenciación del castellano