gheada

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English

Etymology

From Galician gheada.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /heɪˈɑːdə/, /xeɪ-/, /ɡeɪ-/

Noun

gheada (uncountable)

  1. (phonetics) the lenition of the voiced velar stop in the Galician language.
    • 1990, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley Linguistics Society, v.16, page 6:
      This variety is a non-standard phonological register characterized by gheada , that is, the fricativization and devoicing of the voiced velar stop: /ɡ/ -> (other variants are , ; for a review of the phenomenon see for example Alvarez Cáccamo 1989b:261-65).
    • 2007, Jaine Beswick, Regional Nationalism in Spain: Language Use and Ethnic Identity in Galicia, Multilingual Matters, page 141:
      In contrast to the phenomena of open and close vowels, the presence or absence of the gheada is still one of the most prominent phonetic features of present-day Galician.
    • 2008, Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Jason Rothman, Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the Crossroads With Other Languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 75:
      In addition to these feelings of inappropriateness, there are two features of the local dialects that still seem to be stigmatized among my informants: the gheada and the Galician pitch pattern.

Galician

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /ɡeˈada/
  • IPA(key): (gheada) /ħeˈada/

Noun

gheada f (plural gheadas)

  1. (linguistics, phonetics) gheada

Descendants

  • → English: gheada

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

gheada f (plural gheadas)

  1. gheada
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