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Article: Disentangling the necessarily entangled: the phonology and phonetics of Spanish spirantization.
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- Southwest Journal of Linguistics
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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ABSTRACT. Previous accounts have treated Spanish spirantization either as a purely phonological process or as a purely phonetic one. Each of these approaches, however, is inadequate on its own. In this paper a new analysis of Spanish spirantization is proposed that takes into account both phonology and phonetics. By considering both phonology and phonetics together, a cleaner and more explanatory analysis can be offered. A phonological spirantization process by which the value [+continuant] spreads from a preceding segment to an underlyingly [-continuant] voiced obstruent is proposed. This process applies more broadly than similar processes that have been proposed, ...
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Dictionary definition: non-linear phonology
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;
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...non-linear phonology. Any school or model of phonology which establishes basic units over a domain larger than ... to the segmental feature matrices of classic Generative Phonology . See, in particular, Autosegmental Phonology , Metrical ...
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