Liquid Assimilation in Havana Spanish

There has been a consensus among linguists that laryngeal and superlaryngeal nodes are located under the root node and place node is under the superlaryngeal node. However, there is very little consensus on where manner of articulation features belong. A phonological analysis of the spreading and delinking process occurring in the educated Spanish of Havana (Cuba) suggests that: (1) the continuant feature should be located under the superlaryngeal node; (2) continuant and place features form a natural class node (oral cavity); and (3) manner features and place features do operate together in the delinking and spreading operations. (Author/MSE) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES tNFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTEP (ERIC) document hes been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it O Minot changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stalso in this docu . mint do not necessarily represent official OER1 position or policy Cr..1 LIQUID ASSIMILATION IN HAVANA SPANISH Fenfang Hwu AbAtriket: There has been a consensus that Laryngeal and Supralaryngeal nodes are located under the Root Bode and Place node I. under the Supralaryngeal node (Clements 1985, Sagey 1987, Archangeli and Pulleyblank 1988). There is, however, very little consensus on where manner of articulation features belong. It will be argued in this paper, basing on spreading and delinking process occurring in Liquid assimilation in Havana Spanish, that 1) the [continuant] feature should be located under the Supralaryngeal node 2) [continuant] and place features form a natural class node: Oral Cavity as proposed in Clements (1987) 3) manner features and place features do operate tc.gether in the delinking and spreading operations. According to Cuitart (1978, 1980) and Zamora & Guitart (1982), in the educated Spanish of Havana, the distinction between Ill and Ir] in syllable final position is lost. The following data show this phenomenon. (1) (Guitart 1976, 1980; Zamora & Guitart 1982; Harris 1985) a.L + Labial ser bobo, ellobo serpobre, eLpobre ser mata, tal mats Beano, eljno b.L Coronal arde, falda ser te, eLW ser nata, taLtata farsa, falsa combo, cokildn ser rojo, eojo Carlos, estar lejos ser droga, tal droga (1)14 [bp] [min] BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1991, Volume 16, pp. 59-75