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Title: | Weakening of Intervocalic /P, T, K/ in Two Spanish Dialects: Toward the Quantification of Lenition Processes |
Author(s): | Lewis, Anthony Murray |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Hualde, Jose Ignacio |
Department / Program: | Spanish |
Discipline: | Spanish |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Language, Modern |
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. |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 177 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86112 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI3023119 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-28 |
Date Deposited: | 2001 |
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Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois