Abstract

GONZALEZ RATIVA, María Claudia  and  MEJIA ESCOBAR, Jorge Antonio. PHONEMIC FREQUENCY OF COLOMBIAN SPANISH. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2011, vol.24, n.2, pp.69-102. ISSN 0120-338X.

This article presents results of a research project on the frequency of phonemes of Colombian Spanish, on the basis of the application of the Cratilo® software to two corpora, literature and “trova” (improvised popular song) of this speech variety. A phonetic algorithm establishing the use of phonemes in the corpus and compensations on lexical frequency made it possible to obtain the frequency of phonemes in Colombian Spanish, thus using strategies from corpus linguistics and traditional linguistics. Phonemic frequency findings were compared to results reported in other Hispanic speech varieties, in order to provide a reflection on the Spanish phonological system.

Keywords : phonemic frequency; corpus linguistics; Spanish; Cratilo® program; Spanish language.

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