The Spanish of Equatorial Guinea : The Dialect of Malabo and Its Implications for Spanish Dialectology

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 Chapter one: THE SPANISH LANGUAGE IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA 9 1.1 Perspectives on Guinean Spanish 9 1.2 The Republic of Equatorial Guinea 10 1.3 Linguistic panorama of Equatorial Guinea 13 1.4 Spanish language abilities in Equatorial Guinea 14 1.5 Lack of creolization in Guinean Spanish 16 Chapter two: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS 22 2.1 The linguistic interviews 22 2.2 Phonetic and phonological models 25 Chapter three: GRAMMATICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GUINEAN SPANISH 26 3.1 Grammatical features of Guinean Spanish 26 3.2 Morphological characteristics 27 3.3 Syntatic features 31 3.4 Conclusions 32 Appendix 33 Chapter four: GENERAL PHONETIC TENDENCIES 38 4.1 Introduction 38 4.2 Vowels 38 4.3 Diphthongs 41 4.4 Semivowel /y/ 41 4.5 Semivowel /w/ 42 4.6 The consonants 42 4.7 Consonant groups 49 4.8 Suprasegmental characteristics 49 4.9 Summary 51 Chapter five:. BEHAVIOR OF LIQUID CONSONANTS 52 5.1 Importance of liquid consonants for Africanist theories 52 5.2 Behavior of /r̄/ 52 5.3 Neutralization of /r/and /r̄/ 54 5.4 Phoneme /l/ 58 5.5 Phoneme /r/ 64 Chapter six: BEHAVIOR OF WORD-FINAL /n/ 68 6.1 Variability of word-final /n/ 68 6.2 Behavior of word-final prevocalic /n/ 71 6.3 Word-final /n/ in the Spanish of Malabo 73 Chapter seven: BEHAVIOR OF /s/ 75 7.1 /s/ as a dialectological variable 75 7.2 Reduction of /s/ 78 7.3 /s/ in the Spanish of Malabo 84 7.4 Summary 86 Chapter eight: LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF EQUATORIAL GUINEAN RADIO BROADCASTING 87 8.1 Sociolinguistic importance of radio broadcasting 87 8.2 Radio broadcasting in Equatorial Guinea 88 8.3 Sociolinguistic particulars 89 Chapter nine: GUINEAN SPANISH AND AFRICANIST THEORIES OF SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY 92 9.1 The importance of Equatorial Guinean Spanish 92 9.2 Zones of African influence in Spain and Latin America 92 9.3 Separation of African and Spanish/Canary influence 95 9.4 Phonotactic summary 99 BIBLIOGRAPHY 100 Appendix: TRANSCRIPTIONS OF GUINEAN SPANISH 112

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

John M. Lipski. English And Spanish. Bibliography: P. 92-103.