Título: Modelos probabilísticos multinomiales para el estudio del ceceo, seseo y distinción de /s/ y /θ/: datos de la ciudad de Málaga
Autores: Villena Ponsoda, Juan Andrés
Sánchez Sáez, José María
Ávila Muñoz, Antonio Manuel
Fecha: 2008-06-16
2008-06-16
1995
Publicador: RUA Docencia
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Tema: Palatales
Dentales
Alófono
Ceceo
Seseo
Variables sociolingüísticas
Sistema fonológico
Métodos estadísticos
Lengua española
Málaga
Descripción: The aim of this paper is to propose a multinomial probabilistic model able to account for the variation of /θs/ in Southern Spanish varieties. The current analyses carried up till now are based on frequency counts of mergers between /s/ and /θ/, which are labeled 'ceceo' and 'seseo', as two social and regional norms of pronunciation. Standard Spanish distinction between /s/ and /θ/ is therefore to be deduced from the total body of cases, counting every [s] corresponding to an etymological or canonical s as an occurrence of /s/, including the tokens of those individuals whose pronunciation pattern of /θs/ is overtly 'seseo' (exactly the same for the contrary case of 'ceceo'). Since both types (s > θ and θ > s) currently coexist in Southern speech communities as in Málaga city, it is not obvious to decide about the high proportion of cases where /s/ and /θ/ are pronounced in a canonical way. Therefore we need a procedure to decide the rate of cases of canonical pronunciation due to chance. Two related multinomial models have been developed, implemented and tested on a sociological body of data from a social network of 31 individuals from Málaga city, extracted from a sociolinguistic investigation of vernacular varieties in Málaga (M.U.V.-Project). The first model calculates the single probability of seseo (s > s and θ > s), ceceo (θ > θ and s > θ) and distinction (s > s and θ > θ) for every individual studied. The second model calculates the single probability of distinction (s > s and θ > θ) vs. the single probability of reduction or 'confusión' (s > θ and θ > s). To measure the degree of fit of both models, a maximum likelihood estimator has been developed with consistent and hopeful results. Comparison between relative frequency and probabilistic results demonstrates, finally, the more realistic approach lo this problem on the basis presented here.
Este trabajo se ha realizado en el marco del Proyecto de Investigación del Sistema de Variedades Vernáculas Malagueñas (Proyecto V.U.M.), financiado por la DGICYT PB91-0417.
Idioma: Español

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