Weakening of Intervocalic /P, T, K/ in Two Spanish Dialects: Toward the Quantification of Lenition Processes
Lewis, Anthony Murray
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Description
Title
Weakening of Intervocalic /P, T, K/ in Two Spanish Dialects: Toward the Quantification of Lenition Processes
Author(s)
Lewis, Anthony Murray
Issue Date
2001
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hualde, Jose Ignacio
Department of Study
Spanish
Discipline
Spanish
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Modern
Language
eng
Abstract
The dissertation concludes with a discussion of the implications of the experiment's results on our present understanding of stop implementation in Spanish, and suggested avenues for future research. These include the proposal of a method by which the imperfect relationship between speech style and speech rate may be better understood, the consideration of the abruptness and degree of changes in relative intensity values in a vowel---stop consonant---vowel sequence as a potential metric by which stop lenition may be quantified, and finally, the application of a similar experimental method to the voiced stops /b, d, g/ in order to gain insight into the nature by which phonological contrast is upheld in the Spanish stop series.
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