Phonetic Texts from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panamá (1960-2006)

Abstract

In Dialectology, Geographical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, phonetic transcription is often used to illustrate the speech analyzed in monographs, linguistic atlases and variation studies. This paper studies six such works dealing with El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panamá, published between 1960 and 2006. It describes the work in which each phonetic text is included (with a sample of the transcription), its theoretical framework and the system of phonetic notation employed by each author.