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Article: Coronal and velar softening in Spanish: theoretical, historical and empirical evidence of lexicalization.
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- Southwest Journal of Linguistics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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ABSTRACT. Voicing assimilation, phonological deletion, lateral and nasal depalatalization, diphthongization and coronal and velar softening are still largely assumed to be productive morphophonological alternations in Spanish, the result of the application of phonological rules or the operation of constraints of different ranks. Nonetheless, a number of studies suggest that at least diphthongization and nasal and lateral depalatalization may be unproductive in Spanish. The current study argues on theoretical, historical and empirical grounds that coronal and velar softening alternations in Spanish are also lexicalized, and are not part of any rule or constraint based ...
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