La inteferencia fonética en el español de Lleidaalgunos apuntes para so estudio

Resumen

This article presents part of the results of exploratory investigation about the features of the Spanish spoken in Lleida. A study like this one has to take into account the special characteristics of Spanish spoken in the area. Firstly, we have to consider that it is not the mother tongue of a great part of the population, so it is not used at a colloquial level with the same frequency as Catalan. This implies that the variant of Spanish would have some traits which are not conserved in other areas where it is a colloquial language (conservation of consonantic groups, non-relaxed pronunciation, etc.). Secondly, the influence of the native tongue determines the phonetic system of the inhabitants whatever their mother tongue is. Due to this influence we can observe some phonemic importations, hipo- or hiperdistintions of differences, etc. This study takes into account personal observation and some interviews registered in the first semestre of 1995.