The phonic configuration of Salvadorean Spanish in the colonial period

Abstract

Due to the lack of studies about Salvadorean Spanish diachrony, this paper aims to contribute to the historical knowledge of this variety during the 17th. and 18th. centuries through the study of its phonic configuration: a group of 33 Inquisitorial documents will be analysed in order to describe all phonetic and phonological features appearing in this corpus. The main goal is to verify if there is a phonic configuration similar to the one that exists nowadays, that is to say, if phonic dialectalization is already taking place during colonial period.