Spanish phonology and morphology: Experimental and quantitative perspectives (review)

Language ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-438
Author(s):  
José Ignacio Hualde
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2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna M. Babel

Abstract This article describes the use of aspirates and ejectives in a variety of Spanish with significant Quechua contact influence that is spoken in the Santa Cruz valleys of central Bolivia. Aspirates and ejectives occur primarily on Quechua loanwords, making these ‘intermediate phonological relationships’ (Hall 2013) that are hard to categorize with respect to their status as phonetic vs. phonological features. Results from a small-scale perception and shadowing task show that language users are able to distinguish between these sounds and canonical Spanish consonants in minimal pairs, but that there is variation among speakers in the way these sounds are reproduced. While the use of aspirates and glottal stops in Spanish in contact with Mayan languages has been documented (Michnowicz 2015; Michnowicz and Kagan 2016) previous studies of Andean Spanish phonology have not reported the use of aspirates and ejectives as part of the sound system (Boynton 1981; Cassano 1974; Pyle 1981).


Author(s):  
John M. Lipski

The non-linear analysis of Spanish phonology as proposed by Harris (1984) and others promises to augment the explanatory power of currently available phonological descriptions, and may offer significant insights into the description of phonological differences among dialects. However, the interaction between previously held notions of phonological processes and the new theoretical analysis has not yet been fully explored, and the claim that the latter apparatus must necessarily completely supplant the former is perhaps over ambitious. The present note will deal with competing analyses of two frequent processes in Spanish, velarization of underlying /n/ and aspiration of underlying /s/, both of which have been used in support of the latest theoretical proposals. I will attempt to demonstrate that the data used to formulate these proposals have been excessively idealized. The full range of complexity and variation which surrounds these and similar phenomena necessitates a more ramified analysis, and even an idealization which does not distort the fundamental nature of the two processes casts doubt on the simple analysis suggested as a replacement for orthodox generative and traditional structuralist analyses.


Hispania ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 968
Author(s):  
Vladimir Honsa ◽  
I. R. Macpherson
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Hispania ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 445
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Matluck ◽  
William W. Cressey
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Author(s):  
Dra. Minerva Oropeza Escobar

El estudio que a continuación presento examina la adquisición de la fonología, entendida en un sentido amplio, en su interacción con otros niveles lingüísticos, a partir de los mecanismos que han sido identificados como responsables del cambio lingüístico, específicamente la variación, el reanálisis y la analogía. La interrogante que orienta el análisis es si dichos procesos pueden ser aplicados productivamente a la comprensión de la adquisición de la fonología; es decir, si ambos campos pueden beneficiarse del mismo marco conceptual. Realizo esta investigación en una lengua, el español, que ha sido poco estudiada desde esta perspectiva. Los datos proceden de un estudio transversal realizado en la ciudad de Xalapa, en el que participaron 55 sujetos de entre dos y seis años de edad. A partir de mis hallazgos, que confirman la pertinencia de las nociones de variación, reanálisis y analogía, para la comprensión del desarrollo fonológico, emprendo una reflexión sobre el impacto de la lectura en la conciencia fonológica del niño y en el proceso de cambio lingüístico.AbstractThe present work investigates the acquisition of Spanish phonology –viewed in its connections with other linguistic levels- in the light of the mechanisms that have been identified as responsible for language change; more specifically, variation, reanalysis and analogy. The aim of the study is to determine whether those notions can lead to a better understanding of the acquisition of phonology; that is, if both fields (phonology acquisition and language change) can benefit from a shared conceptual framework. The present analysis focuses on Spanish, a language that has scarcely been approached from this perspective. The data analysed were collected in the Mexican city of Xalapa, between fifty-five monolingual children, whose ages ranged between two and six years old. On the basis of the findings, which corroborate the relevance of the notions of variation, reanalysis and the analogy to our understanding of the phonological development, a reflection is made in the light of the subjects’ exposure to literacy and the influence of the latter on language change.Recibido: 09 de mayo de 2011 Aceptado: 07 de julio de 2011


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