Edición Instituto Cervantes at FAS - Harvard University
Estudios del Observatorio/Observatorio Studies. 079-06/2022EN (Trans.)
Abstract: Dialectology, linguistic geography and sociolinguistics have frequently utilized the phonetic transcription of texts to illustrate the ways of speaking analyzed in dialect monographs, linguistic atlases and variation studies. This article retrieves ten of these works on Spanish in the United States that were published between 1912 and 2006. The work in which the phonetic texts appear (with a sample of each), its methodological framework and the system of transcription are described. Although today they are forgotten, dispersed or difficult to find in the linguistic bibliography, the compilation, homogeneous presentation and adequate historiographical contextualization of the materials that make up this work is of interest for higher education, research and the philological description of Spanish spoken in the USA.
Keywords: Spanish in the United States, dialectology, linguistic geography, sociolinguistics, history of linguistics, phonetic transcription.