We examine the weakening of intervocalic voiceless stops in Spanish in order to gain insight
on historical processes of intervocalic lenition. In our corpus, about a third of all tokens of …

The distinction between categorical phonological alternations and gradual phonetic
processes is an important one in the study of sound systems. However, the correct …

The Spanish voiced obstruents/bdg/are traditionally described as having each two
allophones: stop and fricative (approximant) in complementary distribution. Several …

Intensity differences were used to measure the degree of lenition of the voiced approximants
in various contexts in order to contrast them with their stop variants [b, d, g], and in order to …

Inspired by the relatively sparse amount of previous work on heritage Spanish phonetics
and phonology, this study examined the intervocalic productions of/bdg/in the read and …

This study explores ongoing lenition of postvocalic/ptkbdg/in the Spanish of Gran Canaria.
Duration, intensity and harmonics-to-noise ratio of 16,454 sounds produced by 44 native …

The disciplinary boundary between laboratory phonology and sociolinguistics is becoming
ever more blurred. For instance, some variationist studies recently carried out (eg Alba 2006 …

This study investigates the acquisition of nativelike variation in the production of
Spanish/d/by English-speaking learners. Specifically, we examine the production of/d/in …

An automated method is presented for the commensurable, reproducible measurement of
duration and lenition of segment types ranging from fully occluded stops to highly lenited …

In many varieties of Spanish, syllable-and word-final/s/is subject to a process of reduction
from sibilance [s] through aspiration [h] to deletion. Sociolinguistic studies have traditionally …