Aspectos generales de fonética regional en estudiantes jujeños de la UNT

Abstract

This work centers around specifying the phonetic characteristics that set apart the way students from the Argentinian province of Jujuy speak, while studying at Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. For that reason, we interviewed 10 students from Jujuy, and performed an activity based upon Labov’s observation-experimentation model (1983). All of this, with the thought of verifying our hypothesis that the regional allophones of the /y/ and /r/ phonemes, and the inhaling of the /s/ phoneme, are characteristics that don’t appear in the way of speaking of students from Jujuy; while also getting to know the personal perception they have about their own speech, in relation to the Tucumán variant.
As a conclusion, we can say that, for the most part, the students that took part in this work tend to inhale the /s/ phoneme almost entirely. As for the /r/ phoneme, the students don’t tend to perform an assibilation, but the pronunciation finds itself getting distorted, as a product of the contact with the Tucumán variant. Lastly, regarding the /y/ phoneme, the students strongly semivocalize it.