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DESCRIPTIVE PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SPANISH OF LIBERIA, IN THE PROVINCE OF GUANACASTE, COSTA RICA

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Date Issued:
1978
Summary:
Selected segmental phonemes of the Spanish of the city and canton of Liberia, in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, are described and analyzed on articulatory criteria. Tabulation of frequencies of occurrence of principle allophones of each phoneme show the rural and urban speech of this area to be similar in all but one feature, the pronunciation of /tr/. A comparison of the Spanish of Liberia with published data on the Spanish of nearby Nicaragua and the socially and politically influential Valle Central of Costa Rica shows the sharing of important phonological features with the speech of these two areas.
Title: A DESCRIPTIVE PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SPANISH OF LIBERIA, IN THE PROVINCE OF GUANACASTE, COSTA RICA.
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Name(s): COWIN, SUZANNE MARIE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Resnick, Melvyn C., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1978
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 92 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Selected segmental phonemes of the Spanish of the city and canton of Liberia, in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, are described and analyzed on articulatory criteria. Tabulation of frequencies of occurrence of principle allophones of each phoneme show the rural and urban speech of this area to be similar in all but one feature, the pronunciation of /tr/. A comparison of the Spanish of Liberia with published data on the Spanish of nearby Nicaragua and the socially and politically influential Valle Central of Costa Rica shows the sharing of important phonological features with the speech of these two areas.
Identifier: 13902 (digitool), FADT13902 (IID), fau:10728 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1978.
Subject(s): Spanish language--Costa Rica--Liberia--Phonology
Spanish language--Provincialisms--Costa Rica--Guanacaste
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