Anti-hiatus tendencies in Spanish: rate of occurrence and phonetic identification

Spanish normative grammar considers any two-vowel combination of /e/, /a/, and /o/ as a hiatus, accepting that they can be pronounced as a diphthong in lower basilects and/or informal registers. This article analyzes speeches of educated speakers, performing an acoustic analysis of 60 segmental and...

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Main Authors: Herrero de Haro Alfredo, Alcoholado Feltstrom Antonio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2024-01-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0228