Spanish ‘depalatalization’: the synchronic, diachronic and perception perspectives
Spanish has a restriction on palatal nasals and laterals in the coda causing them to be realized as dental/alveolar coronals. In the onset position, the palatal point of articulation is retained, bello ‘beautiful-masc.’, beldad ‘beauty’; doña ‘Madam’, don ‘Mister’. Alternations such as these led pho...
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Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2017-05-01
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Series: | Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/3851 |