Una nota sobre prosodia diacrónica (a propósito del proyecto AMPER en Castilla y León)

Abstract

Following the principle of Labov that the present allows to explain the past, in this paper the first four survey places of the Project AMPER in Castile and León are put into their socio-historical context, and the results of the respective surveys are interpreted. Although conclusive results have not yet been reached so far, apart from describing the prosodic physiognomy of each of the communities studied, we are on the track to test a hypothesis formulated by María Josefa Canellada about the existence of a prosodic base in Western Iberian Peninsula making up an intonation system different from the Castilian one, which underpins the standard intonation in Spain. We also try to show how the current intonation patterns of the survey places might have been a result of various historical processes of koineization in which basic elements from a Castilian prosodic base mixed, in a varied proportion, with other ones from a Western provenance.