Sociolinguistic Study of the Quechua of Huancavelica

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https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v11i1.22031

Keywords:

sociolinguistics, variation, language contact, stress oxytone, fricativization

Abstract

This research is sociolinguistics nature, and the main aim, on the new data recorded in a contemporary talk of Southern Quechua, explains, analyze and discuss, in the light of theories variation and language contact, first the presence of the acute accent in the Quechua District Moya; secondly, the process that affects only partially fricativization to segments /k/, /q/ and /č/, which becomes in its forms /x/, /X/ and /š/, respectively, the method realizes the kind of sociolinguistic variables identified in these phenomena and the way it has conducted data collection.

Author Biography

  • Emérita Escobar Zapata, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Peru

    Correo: eescobarz@unmsm.edu.pe

    Hoja de vida: Doctora en Lingüística por la UNMSM, profesora principal del Dpto. de Ciencias Humanas en la UNALM y de la EAP-Lingüística en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Es investigadora de las lenguas andinas. Ha sido Directora del Dpto. de Ciencias Humanas (2016-2018), igualmente, fue directora de la Unidad de Proyección Social y Extensión Universitaria de la FEP-UNALM. Es miembro del Centro de Investigación y Lingüística Aplicada (CILA) y de la Cátedra Quechua de la UNMSM.

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Published

2011-09-30

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2011)

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Escobar Zapata, E. (2011). Sociolinguistic Study of the Quechua of Huancavelica. Lengua Y Sociedad, 11(1), 44-64. https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v11i1.22031