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Portuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact
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[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 1] 2014
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On the partially divergent phonology  of Spanish, Portuguese and points in between

Letania Ferreira | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

D. Eric Holt | University of South Carolina

In this chapter we explore the comparative markedness and phonotactics of Spanish and Portuguese phonology as a framework in which to consider: (i) the segmental inventories of each language, (ii) the phonological processes of the grammar of each language (including how prosody may impact these), as well as (iii) certain historical and dialectal developments, including (iv) phonologically intermediate/hybrid variants.

Published online: 30 October 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.1.08fer

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