Rasgos de simplificación en el habla rural de dos localidades de Chile: Descripción fonotáctica y discursiva

Abstract

Chilean rural speech, variety spoken by nearly 14% of the population of the country according to the latest national census, shows specificphonotactic and discourse features which characterise and differentiate itfrom other dialectal varieties found in the country. Segmental simplifications like elision, assimilation, gradation, compression, substitution, amongst others, are to be found as recurrent features at the phonotactic level; at the discourse level, phenomena like pauses -filled or empty-, false starts, repetitions, segmental lengthening are recurrent in this variety. In this article we give an account of the behaviour of such features as they are manifested phonotactically and discoursally- in two rural communities of the Metropolitan Region atthe moment of producing semi spontaneous speech.