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Sankoff, 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

Brown, Richard L. – Hispania, 1990
Discusses the vowel contrast of the vowel systems of English and Spanish, and concentrates on the difficulties posed by the interference of the English Schwa sound. (GLR)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English

Cedeno, Rafael A. Nunez – Hispania, 1987
Intervocalic features of Villa Mella Spanish, a dialect spoken in a region of Santo Domingo, are reviewed, with particular emphasis on the intervocal "d." (CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects
Avery, Peter; And Others – TESL Talk, 1987
Reviews common pronunciation problems experienced by learners of English as a second language who are native speakers of Vietnamese, Cantonese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Greek, and Punjabi. (CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Cantonese, Consonants, English (Second Language)