Ebook: Spanish Phonology : Descriptive and Historical

Ian Richard Macpherson's 1975 textbook on Spanish phonology, including a historical view.

From the preface: "This book is intended to serve as a general introduction to the phonetics and phonology, both descriptive and historical, of the Spanish language. Until now, to the best of my knowledge, there has been no introductory course in English available. For the descriptive phonetics of Spanish, the student has been able since 1918 to consult Tomás Navarro’s Manual de pronunciación española and, more recently, Quilis and Fernández’s Curso de fonética y fonología españolas and J. B. Dalbor’s Spanish Pronunciation; for a study of the history of the language and of historical phonology he has had available principally Rafael Lapesa’s historical de la lengua española, W. J. Entwistle’s The Spanish Language and Ramón Menéndez Pidal’s Gramática histórica española. [...] In order to fill a gap which in my belief has existed for a long time, I have here combined into one volume an introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology approached from a descriptive point of view in the first part and from a historical point of view in the second. It has not been my aim to present the material in any formalistic way..."