Postlexical contraction of nonhigh vowels in Spanish

Although at the lexical level (in the citation form of words) Spanish has only high glides, mid vowels may also become nonsyllabic by a postlexical process of syllable contraction. In this paper we report on an experiment designed to study the contraction of sequences of nonhigh vowels in Castilian...

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Published in:	Lingua Vol. 118; no. 12; pp. 1906 - 1925
Main Authors:	Hualde, José Ignacio, Simonet, Miquel, Torreira, Francisco
Format:	Journal Article Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01-12-2008 Elsevier
Subjects:	Contraction Descriptive studies and applied theories Glides Linguistics Phonology Spanish Syllabification Spanish Glides Syllabification Contraction Deletion Phonology Mid-vowel Word boundary Glide
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