Syllabic phenomena in Spanish and Portuguese

This dissertation proposes a hypothesis on syllable structure and examines resyllabification of word final segments in Caracas Spanish and in standard Portuguese. The most important aspect of the hypothesis is that the Onset and the Nucleus of the syllable are a constituent $\sigma \sp\prime$, lower...

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Main Author: Weston, Rosemary E
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1997
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809410