Phonological Processes of Elision and Substitution in the Corpus Preseea-Medellin

Abstract

This article presents the variationist analysis of phonological processes of elision and substitution present in 36 semi-structured interviews Corpus Preseea-Medellin. The hypothesis that phonological processes are conditioned by internal factors through multiple regression analysis performed with the GoldVarb statistical program is checked. The results showed that the application of phonological processes of elision and substitution has a multi-causal relationship, especially between semantic factors as functionality and homophony, and aspects of phonology as the segmental environment of speech, number of syllables, the homorganicity and accent. The interpretation of the data accounts that the internal variables may guide language processing to conform lexical structure where there is the possibility to elide or replace a phonemic position in the phonic chain. These patterns respond to restrictions on the order of semantic transparency and avoidance of similarity to a greater extent
to assist with understanding the message. In this sense, the speakers of Spanish spoken in Medellin cooperate with comprehension of the messages in language use.