Studies in Caribbean Spanish Dialectology

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Sonido y sentido lifts the learning of Spanish pronunciation for American English-speaking students to a new level, with support of an accompanying CD. Written in Spanish by a native speaker who is a leading figure in the field of Spanish phonology, this introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology will improve both the pronunciation and understanding of spoken Spanish by demonstrating the specific ways in which the sound pattern of Spanish differs from English. Notable in that it explains the why of pronunciation with specific information on how the sounds of Spanish are organized--it...

Una introducciaon completa a la historia externa e interna de la lengua espaanola desde sus oraigenes indoeuropeos hasta la lengua moderna. Los autores escudrianan los cambios fonolaogicos, morfolaogicos, sintaacticos, semaanticos y laexicos que caracterizan la evoluciaon de la lengua espaanola desde sus oraigenes latinos. El foco de este libro es el espaanol moderno. Los autores abordan cuestiones tan fundamentales como: ADe daonde proviene el espaanol? ACaomo llegao a ser la lengua que conocemos hoy en daia? ACaomo se relaciona genaetica y culturalmente con los demaas lenguas romances y a...

La obra examina el impacto que la semántica verbal, en concreto la telicidad y la afectación, ejerce sobre el marcado diferencial de objeto (MDO) en español. El trabajo persigue dos objetivos: (i) establecer si los factores mencionados producen realmente el impacto en el MDO que se les ha atribuido; y (ii) comprobar si dicho impacto puede documentarse en etapas previas del español. Para ello se han realizado dos estudios: un cuestionario de elección forzada y un análisis diacrónico de corpus. Los resultados de ambos estudios han señalado en ambos casos un claro efecto de la...