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dc.creatorBROWN,ESTHER L
dc.date2006-01-01
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dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-48832006000200004
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/75104
dc.descriptionIn several varieties of spoken Spanish, word-medial, labial stops are articulated as velar stops (pepsi > Pe[k]si). This work summarizes some previous attempts to explain this abrupt sound substitution. Then, building upon advances in phonotactic theory (e.g., Pierrehumbert, 1994) and patterns emergent from lexical representations (Bybee, 2001), this work presents a new theoretical perspective from which to examine the p > k phenomenon. Syllable-final, word-medial, velar stops (/g, k/) have a significantly higher token and type frequency than syllable-final, word-medial labial stops (/b, p/) in Spanish. As a result, the schema [..C VELAR$C..], and not [..C LABIAL$C..], emerges as a stronger, more productive schema, promoting the abrupt sound substitution LABIAL > VELAR.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte
dc.relation10.4067/S0718-48832006000200004
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceRLA. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada v.44 n.2 2006
dc.subjectStops
dc.subjectSpanish
dc.subjectvelarization
dc.subjectfrequency
dc.subjectschemas
dc.titleVELARIZATION OF LABIAL, CODA STOPS IN SPANISH: A FREQUENCY ACCOUNT


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