Rosa Torrado (La Alamedilla). Juicios lingüísticos

An interview with a speaker from La Alamedilla provides a linguistic profile of a local 'mistura' dialect, described as a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese influenced by smuggling history. The informant discusses pronunciation, lexical interference, and generational differences in speech, with the final four minutes conducted in Portuguese. The dataset was coordinated by Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso and last updated in May 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyzing phonetic interference patterns based on described pronunciation examples like 'toucinho'.
• Studying dialect perception and attitudes based on the informant's judgments of neighboring towns' speech.
• Researching lexical change and recovery based on mentions of young people wanting to recover old vocabulary.
• Examining language use domains based on the informant's reported use of languages in family and school settings.

Strengths

• Provides a direct linguistic profile from a speaker within the described contact zone.
• Includes comparative judgments on speech from La Alamedilla, Puebla, and La Alberguería.
• Contains a segment conducted in Portuguese, offering a sample of the informant's speech.

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 is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Álvarez Pérez, Xosé Afonso (coord.), e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely contains an interview transcript and/or audio recording.

Time Range

Interview date is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 05:02:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Focuses on the speech of La Alamedilla, with comparisons to Puebla and La Alberguería, suggesting a border region between Spain and Portugal.