Abstract
dc:description"The vowel systems of languages differ in their inventories and contrastive features. The actual phonetic realization of the phonemic vowel inventory depends on a variety of factors involving the overall phonological and morphological organization of a given language. These factors may serve to reduce or multiply the phonetic realizations of the phonemic vowel system. The laxing of vowels in plural nouns and certain verbal forms in eastern Andalusian Spanish is an example of a contextually induced complication of the vowel system. Investigators such as Navarro Tomas (1939), Alonso et al. (1950), Salvador (1957, 1977) and others claim that the phonemic vowel inventory of eastern Andalusian has ""doubled"" (desdoblamiento) from the five of standard Spanish to as many as ten. The trigger for ""doubling"" is the aspiration or deletion of word-final /s/, which serves as the plural marker and is also present in common verbal inflections."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Language, Linguistics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Sanders, Benjamin Patric
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Hualde, Jose Ignacio
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1994 Sanders, Benjamin Patric
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI9512539
(UMI)AAI9512539 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23510