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GONZALEZ, Jorge; HERNANDEZ, Gretel  y  ALGARA, Andrés. The Nasal Posnuclear Archiphoneme in Spanish from Tenerife. Letras [online]. 2011, vol.53, n.84, pp.21-49. ISSN 0459-1283.

Spanish from Tenerife is one of the radical varieties of Spanish, with its foregrounding features of posteriorization and the descending of postnuclear segments, among which the nasal archiphoneme is to be found. In this work, the realization of /N/ by Spanish speakers from Tenerife was analyzed in four phonological contexts: mid position, end of word before consonant, end of word before vowel, and prepausal. This study is supported on the principles of the Natural Polisystemic Model (Chela-Flores 1987, 1997 y 1998). The corpus consisted of 660 instances of the postnuclear /N/, obtained from a sample of 20 subjects, students of the University of La Laguna, Tenerife. The global results showed high levels of velarization (29,24 %). The contexts that most frequently favored this phenomenon was the prepausal (93,75 %), followed by the prevocalic (50,63 %), end of word before consonant (12,22 %), and finally the mid position (6,25 %). These results demonstrate the velarizing nature of this variety of Spanish from Tenerife, at least in terms of the realization of the postnuclear nasal phoneme.

Palabras clave : Phonology of Spanish; postnuclear nasal phoneme; velarization.

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