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In its 5th edition, Fonética y fonología españolas remains an indispensable resource for students of Spanish as a second language. This comprehensive text covers the essential components required for fluency, with a detailed treatment of phonetics and phonology that provides a powerful framework for the study and practice of spoken language. A focus on the application of articulatory methods enables English speakers to hone advanced pronunciation skills. Extensive attention to dialect phenomena found in Latin American and Peninsular Spanish introduces readers to fascinating sociolinguistic ...

En este libro se trata de ofrecer una explicación unitaria de cuatro grupos de combinaciones verbonominales del español contemporáneo como resultado de un proceso de lexicalización. Se presenta en primer lugar un estado de la cuestión. En segundo lugar, se examinan algunas características morfosintácticas que permiten delimitar los cuatro grupos. En tercer lugar, se presentan los argumentos que invitan a considerar estas combinaciones como resultado de la lexicalización. Por último, se comparan combinaciones verbonominales y verbos correspondientes.

The Spanish Language Today describes the varied and changing Spanish language at the end of the twentieth century. Suitable for introductory level upward, this book examines: * where Spanish is spoken on a global scale * the status of Spanish within the realms of politics, education and media * the standardisation of Spanish * specific areas of linguistic variation and change * how other languages and dialects spoken in the same areas affect the Spanish language * whether new technologies are an opportunity or a threat to the Spanish language. The Spanish Language Today contains numerous...

While in a major library, Daniel Torres discovers that a book he has not written is listed under his name. To find the real author, he travels to Argentina, and in the process discovers his past.