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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Spanish

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Cloward, Robert Alston

• Language, Linguistics

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8502109

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70971