Publisher's Synopsis
The manual provides a structuralistically oriented introduction to the phonetics and phonology of Spanish. It is addressed to undergraduate students in their first two years at university and requires no special knowledge of phonetics/phonology. The eight chapters discuss the terminology required for he subject, selected resources, the fundamentals of articulatory phonetics, phoneme analysis, distinctive features, transcriptions, graphematics, syllable structure, suprasegementals, and variety-related aspects of Spanish.