The ‘transition dialect’ concept and Canarian Spanish

Some dialectologists reject the idea that the language spoken in the Canary Islands can be considered a dialect. The reasons given to support this thesis are two: the first one is that such a variety has no exclusive language features, and the second is that this speech variety is characterised by a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Manuel Almeida
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2016-02-01
Series:Revista de Filología Románica
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RFRM/article/view/51064