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Variation in the verb in the Segrià:
the pronunciation of the third-person morpheme in different contexts of use, by Josefina Carrera-Sabaté |
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Binomial analysis by the Goldvarb programme indicates that in the debates the probability of occurrence of the traditional [e ] variant is very high (0.83) while in the news broadcasts this probability drops to a correspondingly low level (0.23) (Logarithm of similarity: -163041, sig=0.000, X2 test = 0.0000). Looking at gender of interviewees, we observe that both in the debates and in the news broadcasts, women are surprisingly more likely than the men to maintain the traditional [e ] variant. Table 2. (Logarithm of similarity: -175579, sig=0.000).
Comparison of results shows similar or parallel linguistic behaviour in both the inhabitants of the village of Alguaire and the speakers on Lleida television. Indeed, we observe that, in general, in predominantly formal speech events, there is a tendency to use phonological forms that coincide with the written standard and, as a consequence, to begin to lose the morphology which has traditionally characterised the Lleidatà dialect. Analysis of the most formal speech events shows that realisations of the verb morphemes can be classified in three well differentiated groups clustering by event: a) those occurring in the television newscasts, where the probability of maintaining [e] is a low 0.23; b) the realisations recorded during the questionnaire and responses to the same carried out with villagers of Alguaire, where the probability of maintaining [e] is a high 0.819; c) the phonological realisations culled from the debates on regional television, where the probability of maintaining [e] is again high, 0.83. This in turn
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] as a result of, in the first place, the influence of
the written language on the spoken language – and this is especially clear, given
that the lowest incidence of the traditional variant is found in written discourse
intended for oral delivery (news bulletins); and in the second place, the fact that in
general, in the Lleida dialect, the unstressed vowels written <a> are pronounced [
e], which become reduced
to [a
