Contrasts current pronunciation of some Spanish consonants with the teachings and theory of pronunciation manuals, advocating more realistic standards of instruction. Gives a detailed phonetic description of common variants of the sounds discussed, covering both Spanish and Latin American dialects. (MES)

Second part of a continued article. (SK)

Analysis of how word-final "m" in Spanish is pronounced in various distributional situations. The major tendency is for it to become an "n" except before "p" and "b" when it is pronounced as bilabial sonorant "m." (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

Some of the orthographical and phonological problems involved in the use of the Spanish prepositions "ex" and "post" are discussed. Examples are provided. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

This article examines a group of morphophonemic features that show a correlation to psycholinguistics and sociolinguistic factors. (NCR)

Conclusion of an article begun in the December 1972--January 1973 issue. (DS)

A collectivity can be defined by the verbal instrument which binds it together. By extension of this thought of Marshall MacLuhan, the importance of the written language as normative for the uniformity, universality and preservation of the phonetic system of the language is discussed. (Text is in Spanish.) (AMH)

Paper read at the Second International Congress on the Teaching of Spanish held February 1971 in Madrid, Spain. (DS)

Discusses the difficulty students of Spanish have in learning the correct articulation of the various allophones of the Spanish vowels. The main problem is that they assume there are no distributional variants. Lists of the allophones are given with their respective conditioning environments. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)