Exceptionality in Spanish Onset Clusters

Spanish complex onsets have been traditionally described as consisting of a stop (/p, t, k, b, d, g/) or the fricative /f/ plus a liquid. Given that all Spanish varieties have other fricatives (/x, s/), the obstruents that can form part of an onset cluster do not straightforwardly compose a natural...

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Main Author: Katerina A. Tetzloff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2020-05-01
Series:Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
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Online Access:http://nopos.eu/index.php/borealis/article/view/5321