La Evolución de /ʎ/ en las lenguas iberorrománicas: ¿cambio interno o contacto?

Abstract

[eng] Many studies have dealt with the /ʎ/-/j/ merger in Spanish varieties. Nevertheless, it is a sound change phenomenon that not only occurs in this language, but also in other Romance systems. Particularly, this process has been claimed to arise due to the influence of Spanish in some Ibero-Romance languages, i. e. Catalan or Galician, due to the bilingualism situation in these areas (Dubert-García 2005, Bibiloni 2016). However, other authors have stated that language contact may inhibit such a change, at least in some Catalan speaking regions (Enrique-Arias 2010).