This dissertation investigates the word-final, intervocalic glottal stop [special character
missing] in Nicaraguan Spanish, a highly understudied variant in an equally understudied …

Phonetic accommodation is the process whereby speakers in an interaction modify their
speech in response to their interlocutor. The social-psychological theory of Communication …

Although at the lexical level (in the citation form of words) Spanish has only high glides, mid
vowels may also become nonsyllabic by a postlexical process of syllable contraction. In this …

In this paper, I review previous research on the tendency to resolve hiatus vowel sequences
in Spanish, a phenomenon of language variation, especially reported in Latin American …

Resum En la present investigació, pretenem analitzar el fenomen de la" contracció sil·
làbica", és a dir, la reducció d'una seqüència de dues vocals idèntiques/e/a una de sola …

Siempre que comparamos tipológicamente los inventarios vocálicos de las lenguas,
juzgamos el español como un idioma sin grandes dificultades de pronunciación: basta …

The alternation between high-front vowels/glides and post-alveolar consonants (henceforth,'
coronalization'; see Harris/Kaisse 1999) is a well-documented cross-linguistic phenomenon …

While the vocalic system in Spanish is typically described as stable, there is increasing
evidence for dialectal vowel variation. The focus of the current study is variable vowel raising …

This contribution deepens our understanding of the conditions favoring mid-vowel gliding in
Mexican and Argentine Spanish. Whereas this process has been widely reported, the fact …

In Spanish, adjacent vowels across and within word boundaries are either in hiatus or form a
diphthong. Generally, when either of the unstressed high vowels/i/and/u/appears next to any …