University Press of America
Pages: 160
Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-0-7618-3531-8 • Paperback • October 2006 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
Obdulia Castro is Assistant Professor of Spanish, Regis University. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics with distinction from Georgetown University.
Part 1 List of Figures
Part 2 List of Tables
Part 3 Preface
Chapter 4 I. Trubetzkoy's Orphan Revisited: A View from Spanish Morphophonology
Chapter 5 II. Overview of Optimality Theory
Chapter 6 II. Spanish Morphophonology and Language Acquisition
Chapter 7 IV. Stress and Intonation
Chapter 8 V. The Obligatory Contour Principle and the Pronoun System of Spanish: Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology at the Crossroads
Chapter 9 VI. The Acquisition of Alternating Diphthongs in Native and Non-Native Systems
Chapter 10 VII. Inflection vs. Derivation
Chapter 11 VIII. Phonological Processing and Foreign Language Learning Difficulties
Chapter 12 IX. Addressing Language Learnability: How Much Information is Enough for Learning Systems to be Successful? Galician geada and Catalan queada
Part 13 Appendix I
Part 14 Appendix II
Part 15 Bibliography
Part 16 Author / Subject Index
Part 17 About the Author