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The Madrileño ejke : a study of the perception and production of velarized /s/ in Madrid
… dissertation, is distinct from most cases of /s/ weakening because it does not fit into the typological weaking paradigm of [s] > [h] > [ø], and furthermore may not be a case of lenition at all (Henriksen & Harper, 2016). Given the curious /s/ variant present in the Madrid dialect, the current …
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Social and Linguistic Factors Conditioning the Glottal Stop in Nicaraguan Spanish
<p>This dissertation investigates the word-final, intervocalic glottal stop [ʔ] in Nicaraguan Spanish, a highly understudied variant in an equally understudied dialect of Spanish. The glottal stop occurs most frequently in western Nicaragua as an allophone of word-final, intervocalic /s/ (the …