Marcelina Preciado y Rosa Cuello (Herrera de Alcántara). Juicios lingüísticos

Extremadura, Spain, is the focus of this linguistic dataset from the 'Palabras Vivas' television program. It contains an interview with an informant discussing the Castilian dialect of Herrera, its peculiarities, and the effect of schooling on youth speech. The dataset was coordinated by Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso and last updated on May 5, 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyzing dialectal features and lexical differences with Portuguese based on the described linguistic peculiarities of Herrera's Castilian.
• Studying the impact of formal education on language use based on the described effect of schooling on young people's speech.
• Comparing linguistic variation across localities based on the mention of Ceclavín and other towns in Extremadura with specific features.
• Researching language attitudes and perceptions based on the informant's judgments about where Spanish is 'spoken better'.

Strengths

• Includes primary source material from a televised linguistic interview program ('Palabras Vivas').
• Focuses on a specific, described geographic and linguistic context: Herrera de Alcántara in Extremadura.
• Metadata indicates a recent update timestamp of 2024-05-05 06:49:44.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse, from the 'Palabras Vivas' television program.

Collection Method

Interview with an informant, likely recorded and transcribed.

Time Range

Interview date is not specified; dataset record was updated in 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 06:49:44; freshness should be verified

Geography

Herrera de Alcántara and Ceclavín in the Extremadura region of Spain.