D. Lincoln Canfield

Spanish American Data for the Chronology of Sibilant Changes

nologia de la igualacidn g-z en espaiol (HR, 1951, pp. 37-58; 143-164) serves as an illuminating check on the Data for the Chronology of Theta and Jota (HR, 1949, pp. 50-60) of Robert K. Spaulding and Beatrice S. Patt. Suspecting that authors of treatises on pronunciation during the second half of the seventeenth century might have been neglected in the consideration of phonetic values and times of changes, the Spaulding and Patt article had examined statements on the

Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas

This book represents the culmination of a lifetime of research in the spoken Spanish dialects of the Americas by one of the foremost experts in this field. Based on more than sixty years of residence, travel, research, and teaching among Spanish-speaking people, Canfields study of the phonological phenomena that have created dialects of Spanish in the Americas makes use of historical treatises, contemporary accounts, and the authors own observations. Bibliographies for each area and a main bibliography of some three hundred pertinent books and articles make this book valuable both as a text and as a reference work.