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Peer reviewedSankoff, David; Rousseau, Pascale – Language Variation and Change, 1989
Combinational characterization and statistical and computational techniques for generalizing rule analysis to the inference of rule order are applied to the problems of the reduction of the syllable-final consonants s, n, and r in Caribbean Spanish. Results show that aspiration and deletion can be seen as intrinsically ordered in both s and r…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
