Os processos de sândi externo no espanhol uruguaio

Abstract

This essay analyzes the external sandhi processes present in a corpus of reporters natives and residing in Uruguay, in a context of interviews. The method utilized for data collection is based in Labov (1972), which states that is valid to obtain data from radio and television shows, mainly in the case of interviews, lectures or debates. This paper has the objective of presenting the external sandhi processes ?diphthongization, degemination and elision ?, as well as its recurrence in Uruguayan Spanish data. This paper sticks to the description and analisys of the mentioned processes, on the Spanish corpus (LM), based on the prosodic theory of Nespor & Vogel (1986) and studies related to external sandhi in Spanish language (Contreras,1966; Hualde, 1991). From the analysis realized, one has concluded that the external sandhi process with the greatest number of occurrences in the sample was the degemination, followed by the elision process and, at last, with an unexpressive number of occurrences, the diphtongization.