Spanish Language Resources

Contornos del Habla is designed to introduce students of diverse backgrounds and different levels of language ability to Spanish phonetics and phonology. Written completely in Spanish, it provides clear and engaging explanations of important linguistic concepts, from the more basic to the more challenging.

Pronunciación de la lengua española para anglohablantes provides students with two types of practical knowledge. First, it draws upon key English-Spanish sound contrasts to guide proper pronunciation of Spanish sounds. Second, it adds to this body of information a systematic treatment of regular phonological rules and shows how these rules manipulate sounds.

Este libro es un manual universitario sobre la disciplina sociolingüística, centrada en la investigación desarrollada en el mundo hispánico desde su aparición a mediados de los años 60 hasta la actualidad.

This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics (the study of speech sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems) and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America.

Sonidos en contexto is a comprehensive, theory-independent description of Spanish phonetics and phonology for intermediate to advanced students.

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Spanish Phonology offers a comprehensive analysis of a variety of crucial issues in the phonology and morphophonology of various dialects of Spanish.

It presents an updated panorama of "yeísmo" in the Spanish speaking world from different perspectives and analyzing its development in 14 speech communities.