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Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Beat Siebenhaar
[Studies in Language Variation 19] 2017
► pp. 125–140

Between local and standard varieties

Horizontal and vertical convergence and divergence of dialects in Southern Spain

| Universidad de Málaga
| Universidad de Málaga

The aim of this chapter is to show evidence of the formation of an intermediate regional variety between, on the one hand, central and standard Castilian Spanish and, on the other, southern innovative dialects. This new variety, which has gradually been emerging in the urban centres of east Andalusia, is a sort of koine melting innovative non-standard phonological traits with standard features.

This paper presents data and results from a research project on the Sociolinguistic Patterns of Castilian Spanish (Pasos), as part of an International Research Project on the American and Castilian Urban Varieties of Spanish (Preseea-Project). Pasos currently deals with dialect convergence and divergence affecting both central conservative and southern innovative varieties.

Keywords: koine, convergence, divergence, Castilian Spanish, Andalusian varieties
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Dialect convergence and divergence in Castilian Spanish
    • 2.1Standard-dialect constellation
    • 2.2 Varieties
  • 3.Linguistic constraints on cross-dialect variation
    • 3.1Mergers and demergers
    • 3.2Demerger of dental /θˢ/. A case of change from above
    • 3.3Erosive changes
    • 3.4Cross-dialect variation. Syllable-final /s/
    • 3.5 Near-Andalusian Castilian
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 July 2017
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