La variación y distribución alofónica en el habla culta de Santiago de Chile

Abstract

The observation that there still lacked a phono-phonological description of the segmental system of educated speech of Santiago, Chile, despite the number of phonetic investigations that have been made on the speech of this country, resulted in a study on the allophonic behaviour of the educated speech of the capital of Chile in order that there be a point of reference that would serve as the standard of the country. The sample upon which the description is based consists of approximately two and a half hours of recorded speech from various registers produced by 40 educated speakers from three age groups. The above, which is allophonically, narrowly transcribed, was analysed in order to discover the allophonic variation and to properly characterise the segmental patterns of this variety which are different from that which is described as the standard traditional peninsular Spanish accent.