Isogloss map for intervowel -d- elision, except for -ado suffixes, in Iberian Peninsula Spanish, according to ALPI .

Intervowel -d- elision happens in all of the peninsula for certain contexts, but it clearly increases from north to south.

The words registered in the ALPI surveys that have been used in this map are :

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Map Legend

Zone A : Points where intervowel -d- is elided in 2 or 3 out of all 4 words.

Zone B : Points where intervowel -d- is elided in 1 out of all 4 words.

Zone C : Points where intervowel -d- is not elided in any of all 4 words.

Zone D : Other languages. Zones where historically Spanish is not the local language.

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Index of Maps :   Isogloss maps for Iberian Peninsula Spanish, according to ALPI

Versión en español :   Mapa de isoglosas para la elisión de la -d- intervocálica, salvo en el sufijo -ado, en el castellano de la península Ibérica, a partir del ALPI

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