Standardisation of Basque Pronunciation: Variation and Artificiality among Speakers
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https://doi.org/10.59866/eia.v2i71.348Keywords:
pronunciation, standardisation, speech registers, variation, artificialityAbstract
The aim of this article is to examine the influence of Basque speakers’ beliefs and opinions regarding certain pronunciations and how these can influence variation across speech registers. To this end, data were collected on the productions and attitudes of several speakers from Ikaztegieta (Gipuzkoa) and Baigorri (Lower Navarre) across different registers. The results show that a sense of artificiality predominates when speakers use pronunciations that are not familiar to them, often limiting register-based variation and hindering the standardization of pronunciation.Downloads
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