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Resistance to the syntagmatic influence of the vowel /a/ in Spanish

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Author
Anderson, James M
Accessioned
2016-06-15T18:55:12Z
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2016-06-15T18:55:12Z
Issued
1982-01
Subject
Linguistics
Spanish language
Phonology
Phonetics
Latin language
Historical linguistics
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Abstract
The relative intractability of the vowel /a/ to syntagmatic influence in Popular Latin and early Hispano-Romance seems to support the contention that this sound is unmarked and the most natural of the vocalic phonemes, a consideration also supported by language acquisition studies where /a/ is found to be the earliest vowel in the linguistic formation of children and by typological studies of vowel systems which indicate that /a/ is present in most, if not all, languages. In both stressed and unstressed environments, phonological processes that affected other vowels in the early history of the Spanish language appear to have been constrained when /a/ was involved.
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Citation
Anderson, J. M. (1982). Resistance to the syntagmatic influence of the vowel /a/ in Spanish. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 7(Winter), 7-12.
Department
Linguistics
Faculty
Arts
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University of Calgary
Publisher
University of Calgary
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/29024
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http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51301
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