Documenting yeísmo in Medieval and Colonial Spanish Texts

• Sonia Kania ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Texas System

     University of Texas System

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Romance philology, ISSN 0035-8002, Vol. 64, Nº. 2, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Fall - Special issue In memoriam: Ray Harris-Northall (1953-2009)), págs. 223-234
• Idioma: inglés
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  • "Yeísmo" is a variety of Spanish pronuntiation in wich the palatal lateral phoneme /y/ is lacking due to its historical merger with the palatal fricative /j/ (Penny 2002: 106, 328). In dialects characterized by"yeísmo", pairs such as "valla" fence and "vaya", present subjunctive form of the verb "ir" to go. are homonymic. The traditional opposition of the two phonemes in question (lleísmo) is maintained in increasingly fewer varieties of modern Spanish [...]