Article published in:
Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and MechanismsEdited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl
[Studies in Language Variation 16] 2014
► pp. 207–238
Dialect stability and divergence in southern Spain
Social and personal motivations
Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda | Universidad de Málaga
Antonio-Manuel Ávila-Muñoz | Universidad de Málaga
The aim of this paper is to show how social stratification and small-scale variables
such as social network and social history, interact in explaining why lowprestige
dialect use persists in spite of the current urban middle-class trends
of convergence towards either the national or the regional standard varieties
(Villena-Ponsoda 2005). Even though Andalusian urban varieties show strong
and relatively recent trends of convergence towards the national standard, and
reveal patterns of phonemic merger reversion and reallocation (Villena & Vida
2004), rural and ‘rurban’ varieties maintain and even tend to reinforce vernacular
dialect features that are leading to the formation of minority non-standard
highly stigmatised inventories (Villena Ponsoda 2008).
Published online: 26 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.16.10vil
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.16.10vil
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