Liquid Assimilation in Havana Spanish

Place vs. Stricture in Spanish Nasal Assimilation

In this paper we investigate patterns of place and stricture assimilation of Argentine Spanish nasals in order to test two competing models of phonological representations of place and stricture features (or tract variables). Electropalatographic (EPG) data from four speakers of Buenos Aires Spanish reveal that nasal assimilation before coronals within words (e.g. in /kanta/, /kansa/, /anʧa/) i...

Phonological Awareness Impact on Articulatory Accuracy of the Spanish Liquid [r] in Japanese FL Learners of Spanish

Foreign language learners tend to avoid phonological difficulties and simply transfer sounds whether from their L1 or any pre-existing L2. Phonological awareness (PA) gives students an active role in understanding their own potential in improving pronunciation through several methods. However, such methods are likely to be restricted to only passive learning methods, such as repetition, reading...

Phonological Awareness Impact on Articulatory Accuracy of the Spanish Liquid [r] in Japanese FL Learners of Spanish

Foreign language learners tend to avoid phonological difficulties and simply transfer sounds whether from their L1 or any pre-existing L2. Phonological awareness (PA) gives students an active role in understanding their own potential in improving pronunciation through several methods. However, such methods are likely to be restricted to only passive learning methods, such as repetition, reading...

Surface Identity and Ternary Scales in Spanish Voicing Assimilation

0. Introduction In several Latin American dialects, Spanish obstruent consonants participate in a process of partial voicing assimilation when they appear in syllable final position. (1) /raskar/ à [rÜ as.kar] 'to scratch' /rasgar/ à [rÜ as z .Far] 1 'to rip' /admirar/ à [aD.mi.rar] 'to admire' /adxuntar/ à [aD T .xun5 .tar] 'to adjoin' In this paper, I develop a novel analysis of this process ...

A cross-dialectal model of voicing assimilation in Peninsular Spanish