Rhotics and laterals pattern together in a variety of ways that suggest that they form a
phonological class (Walsh-Dickey 1997), yet capturing the relevant set of consonants and …

Although sociolinguists working within the variationist tradition have become increasingly
interested in the interactions between varieties of English and Spanish spoken in the United …

Theoretical and descriptive work on Spanish phonetics and phonology has been largely
based on Peninsular varieties. This study uses electropalatography (EPG) to investigate …

A key goal in phonology is to understand the factors that affect phonological learning. This
article addresses the issue by examining how paradigms are reanalysed over time …

It has been argued that obstruent-liquid (OL) clusters constitute the optimal branching onset
(Clements 1990, among others). As concerns French and Spanish in particular, these …

This paper investigates/r/production in phrase initial, word initial and intervocalic position.
Rhotic production was found to include a vocoid preceding the constriction phase in phrase …

This paper examines the phonological structure of French rhotics and their treatment in a
production grammar. Assuming emergent featural specification, it is argued that the …

This paper presents the results of a production experiment which examines the acoustic
characteristics of the Greek rhotic sound in consonant clusters. The experimental results …

Dialects of Spanish in the Caribbean and southern Spain are described as “switching”
liquids in syllable-final position, resulting in the neutralization of the two sounds. This …

In the present work, we build upon the proposal outlined in Colantoni & Steele (2005b) that
asymmetrical patterns of Spanish and French stop-liquid cluster simplification are …