쿠스코 스페인어에 나타나는 /r/의 변이에 대한 계량 사회언어학적 연구: 마찰 변이형을 중심으로 = A Quantitative Sociolinguistic Study of /r/ Variation in Cusco Spanish: Focusing on the Assibilated /r/

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study focuses, from the perspective of variationist sociolinguistics, on the patterns of occurrence of the assibilated variant in the Spanish spoken in Cusco. The assibilation has frequently been mentioned as one of the phonological features characteristic of Andean Spanish. Several quantitative studies conducted in other regions have reported that assibilated variant is progressively decreasing. Considering this, it is reasonable to assume that in Cusco, along with other linguistic features characteristic of the region, this phenomenon may also be undergoing a process of decline. Furthermore, previous studies have noted that in several regions of Latin America, the assibilated variant occurs with high frequency in the context following /s/. To determine whether this pattern is also observed in Cusco, the present study analyzes data from sociolinguistic interviews collected through fieldwork. The results of the analysis show that the assibilated variant appears most frequently among speakers over 55 years of age, while its incidence decreases as speaker age decreases. This suggests that even in Cusco, assibilated variant is undergoing a linguistic change in which it is being progressively replaced by the normative form. Meanwhile, considering the interactions among the independent variables, assibilated variant in Cusco is expected to become restricted to specific environments, such as those following /s/.