Resumen de Phonotactics of Spanish morphology
The morphology of Spanish is undoubtedly shaped by phonotactics, a set of restrictions over segments or sequences of segments permissible in a particular language. This chapter focuses on the interaction between morphological boundaries and operations and phonotactically driven phonological phenomena. Spanish phonotactics and morphology intersect in various ways. Of those, the chapter focuses on phenomena related to phonotactics and morpheme boundaries. Onset maximisation does not apply if a morpheme boundary intervenes between the consonants. In most dialects of Spanish, prevocalic glides that are not preceded by a consonant surface as; in other words, they become an obstruent whose degree of constriction ranges from a stop or affricate to a fricative. This process is known as onset strengthening or glide consonantisation. In a majority of Spanish dialects, rhotics can be realised as a trill or a tap. Rhotics are trills in word initial position. Sometimes this is referred to as word-initial /r/ strengthening.
