Spanish Vowel Sandhi: Toward a Characterization of Low-Level Processes in Phonology
In the gap between phonology and phonetics lie the low-level processes: highly variable sound changes of natural language which are crucial to decoding by the hearer, but in the speaker are more a product of performance than competence. Previous phonological frameworks have ignored such phonetic detail as "uninteresting" or have compartmentalized it into optional rules, variable rules, rules with numerical coefficients on features, speech tempo specifications on rules, etc. Much of this work ignores the full range of parameters in low-level variation or notationally conflates their complex relationships into pseudo-generalizations.
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