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This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics (the study of speech sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems) and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America. Topics covered include consonants, vowels, acoustics, stress, syllables, intonation, and aspects of variation within Spanish. Clear comparisons are made between the sounds of Spanish and those of English, and students ...

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main...

Estos textos fueron escritos durante una noche, sufragados bajo el ardor y la prisa del enamoramiento, ese estado extraño del ser humano. Luego de terminarlos pensé que al día siguiente sería interesante mandarlos de forma espaciada, durante la mañana, el mediodía, la tarde y noche. Así sucedió. Laura: oleaje y péndulo. Después de tantas vidas, otra vez estamos aquí. Este amor, entonces, desea sin desear, acompañarte en cada gesto, cada palabra y conocer tu cuerpo. No ese cuerpo de piel blanca, sonrisa lunática y cabello rebelde. Sino el otro. El cuerpo-piel de tus latidos....

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...