Manual de fonetica y fonologia espanolas

Written entirely in Spanish, Manual de fon¿ca y fonolog¿espa¿olas 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