1st Edition

Manual de fonética y fonología españolas

By J. Clegg, Willis Fails Copyright 2018
    536 Pages
    by Routledge

    536 Pages
    by Routledge

    Written entirely in Spanish, Manual de fonética y fonología españolas has a comprehensive scope that touches on all aspects of phonetics and phonology—including acoustic and auditory phonetics, phonotactics, and suprasegmentals, which most often remain untreated.

    The book provides students with a detailed and accurate yet accessible introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology. It includes introductory chapters which place these disciplines within the general field of linguistics and which emphasize the role of sounds and their representation in human communication.

    Key features:

    • Written by trained phoneticians and informed by the current science of phonetics.
    • No prior knowledge of linguistics assumed, as a foundation is laid throughout for all linguistic terms and concepts.
    • Each chapter contains a summary, a list of concepts and terminology, review questions, and pedagogically relevant pronunciation exercises keyed to the specific hints and suggestions provided in the chapters.
    • Chapters dealing with the physical production of sounds contain sections with “Pedagogical Hints,” “Practical Suggestions,” and “Pronunciation Exercises” to link theory to the practical aspects of improving pronunciation.
    • A wealth of graphic material to illustrate each concept clearly.
    • Models of how to pronounce the sounds, sentences and exercises presented in the text, are available online at routledge.com/cw/clegg.

    Manual de fonética y fonología españolas is a comprehensive introduction designed to be clear and accessible to advanced students of Spanish to help them understand how to improve their pronunciation. It will serve as an excellent book for graduate students as well as a valuable resource for teachers, linguists and language professionals.

    Capítulo 1: La comunicación humana  Capítulo 2: La lingüística  Capítulo 3: La fonética y la fonología  Capítulo 4: Sistemas de escritura  Capítulo 5: La fonética articulatoria  Capítulo 6: La fonética acústica  Capítulo 7: La fonética auditiva  Capítulo 8: La relación entre fonemas: la oposición y la neutralización  Capítulo 9: La relación entre fonemas y alófonos: la distribución  Capítulo 10: El posicionamiento y la secuencia de fonemas: la fonotáctica  Capítulo 11: Los fonemas vocálicos  Capítulo 12: Secuencias vocálicas  Capítulo 13: Los fonemas oclusivos  Capítulo 14: Los fonemas fricativos y el fonema africado  Capítulo 15: Los fonemas nasales  Capítulo 16: Los fonemas laterales y vibrantes  Capítulo 17: Secuencias consonánticas  Capítulo 18: La silaba y el silabeo  Capítulo 19: El acento  Capítulo 20: La duración, el ritmo y el énfasis  Capítulo 21: La entonación

    Biography

    J. Halvor Clegg is Associate Professor emeritus of Spanish Linguistics at Brigham Young University.

    Willis C. Fails is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics at Brigham Young University.