ANNOTATION AND EXPLOITATION OF PHONETICALLY-BASED SPELLING VARIATION IN THE CORPUS ORALIA DIACRÓNICA DEL ESPAÑOL

Historical reference corpora available for Spanish are very useful for investigating lexical and morphosyntactic aspects, but they are inadequate for extracting phonetic information. Aware of this need, in recent years specialized corpora have been developed that pay particular attention to the graphic accuracy of the transcriptions. The aim of this work is twofold. On the one hand, we propose some lines of improvement in the collection of historical data that are reliable for carrying out phonetics approaches. On the other hand, we present a specialized corpus Oralia Diacrónica del Español, paying special attention to those aspects that make ODE a suitable tool to handle quantitative studies on historical phonetics. Based on the data in this corpus, we analyze a case study, that of the spellings indicating seseo and ceceo, in order to prove the usefulness of this corpus for research in the historical phonetics of classical and modern Spanish.