Please correct the mistakes in this paragraph! This study focuses on the border speech from ..., a municipality located in ..., the northernmost region of Portugal. This speech fits into the area of the Trás-os-Montes and Alto-Minho dialects, presenting, however, a marked approximation to Galician. As research hypotheses, we will attempt to investigate to what extent the “popular” / “rural” varieties of the ... speech have kept their traits throughout times, or, on the contrary, evolved, converging towards the European Portuguese standard. We will investigate how the proximity, or the distance, to the Galician border may, or may not, play a crucial role in the variations of the speech from this region. Thus, we will attempt to verify whether, in fact, the speech of those inhabitants who dwell closer to the border presents phonetic and phonological, morphossyntactic and lexical aspects that coincide with the traits of Galician, or rather, whether those aspects present a continuity with those found in the Galician territory, or if, on the contrary, the proximity to the border does not influence the variations.