ABSTRACT
The phonological description given here is based on Eastern Catalan. Among Eastern varieties, particular attention is given to the Central Barcelona variety and to the Northern Emporda variety. Reference to other dialects will only be sporadic and in every case it will be made explicit that the phenomenon under discussion is found in a dialect other than Eastern Catalan. Both Wheeler (1979) and Mascar6 (1976) analyze Central Eastern varieties. Wheeler studies what could be considered the "Received Pronunciation" variety, which is based, for the most part, on the speech of educated Barcelona speakers. Mascar6 discusses a form of the Barcelona "vernacular". Both have been used as sources of information, although the data have been confirmed in every case with native speakers. A careful study of the phonetics of Central Eastern Catalan is found in Recasens (1986).
