D. Eric Holt

List of John Benjamins publications for which D. Eric Holt plays a role.

Articles

Ferreira, Letania and D. Eric Holt 2014 On the partially divergent phonology 
of Spanish, Portuguese and points in betweenPortuguese-Spanish Interfaces: Diachrony, synchrony, and contact, Amaral, Patrícia and Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.), pp. 123–150 | Article
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),… read more
Holt, D. Eric 2006 Optimality Theory and language change in SpanishOptimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 378–398 | Article
The present chapter discusses Optimality-Theoretic approaches to language change in Spanish, reviewing a number of works that invoke not only the interaction of faithfulness and markedness constraints, but also the role of perceptual, cognitive, systemic and external influences on linguistic… read more