Gary K. Baker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gary K. Baker plays a role.
Articles
2006 An Acoustic Basis for Palatal Geminate Behavior in Spanish New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology, Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y. (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Article
This paper investigates the phonetic bases of aspects of the phonological behavior of the palatal segments (/ɲ ʎ ʝ/) of Spanish. A moraic geminate structure is assumed for these segments to account for rather exceptional distributional and prosodic effects, particularly the narrowing of the stress… read more
2006 Duration, voice, and dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 399–423 | Article
This paper takes a new look at the evolution of stops from Latin to Spanish. In a series of sound changes that have often been described as a chain shift, geminates reduced to singletons, voiceless stops voiced, and voiced stops approximantized. These changes have generally been attributed to… read more
2003 An OT Treatment of Palatal Fortition in Argentinian Spanish Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition, Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa and Yves Roberge (eds.), pp. 33–48 | Article