1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Phonology

Edited By Sonia Colina, Fernando Martínez-Gil Copyright 2020
552 Pages 109 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

552 Pages 109 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

552 Pages 109 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Phonology brings together leading experts in Spanish phonology to provide a state-of-the-art survey of the field. The five sections present current research on the phonological structure of Spanish including the most prominent segmental processes, suprasegmental features, the ways Spanish phonology interacts with other modules of grammar, the acquisition... Read more



Part I: Segmental Phonology



1. Phonemic contrast and neutralization



Francesc Torres-Tamarit



2. Spirantization and the phonology of Spanish voiced obstruents



Fernando Martínez-Gil



3. Consonant assimilation



Carolina González



4. Vowel harmony



Jesús Jiménez and Maria-Rosa Lloret



Part II . Suprasegmental Phonology



5. Phonotactic constraints on syllable structure



Sonia Colina



6. Glides and high vowels in Spanish



Ellen M. Kaisse



7. Syllable merger



José Ignacio Hualde



8. Spanish verb and non-verb stress



Iggy Roca



9. Current issues and challenges in Spanish intonational research



Pilar Prieto and Paolo Roseano





Part III. Interfaces



10. Spanish rhotics and the phonetics-phonology interface



Travis G. Bradley



11. Laboratory Phonology methods in Spanish phonology



Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza



12. Phonological encoding and the phonology of Spanish: the role of the syllable



Miquel Simonet



13. Allomorphic variation



Maria Ohannesian



14. Plural formation and gender allomorphy



Caroline R. Wiltshire



15. Spanish phonology at the syntax interface



Eulalia Bonet



16. Segmental, syllabic, and phrasal stratum domains of Dominican Surprise-[s] hypercorrection



Rafael A. Núñez-Cedeño, Lucía Badiola, and Ariane Sande-Piñeiro



Part IV. Spanish Phonology and Acquisition



17. Spanish phonology and phonological development: first steps in the acquisition of focus



Conxita Lleó



18. Guiding principles for advancing experimental research on the second language acquisition of Spanish phonology and phonetics



Holly J. Nibert



19. Language contact in Patagonia: durational control in the acquisition of Spanish and Afrikaans phonology



Nicholas Henriksen, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Andries W. Coetzee, and Daan Wissing



20. The phonological system of adult heritage speakers of Spanish in the United States



Rajiv Rao



Part V. Variation and Change in Spanish Phonology



21. Spanish phonological variation



John M. Lipski



22. Sociolinguistic variation



Manuel Díaz-Campos and Valentyna Filimonova



23. A survey of Spanish diachronic phonology



Gary K. Baker and D. Eric Holt



24. The historical emergence of Spanish palatal consonants



Andre Zampaulo

Biography



Sonia Colina is a professor of Hispanic linguistics at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.



Fernando Martínez-Gil is an associate professor of Hispanic linguistics at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.