Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española by Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño, Sonia Colina and Travis Bradley

Reviewed by: Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española by Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño, Sonia Colina and Travis Bradley Manuel Díaz-Campos Núñez Cedeño, Rafael A., Colina, Sonia and Travis Bradley, eds. Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP, 2014. Pp. 411. ISBN: 978-1-62616-041-5. Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española is a book designed to introduce students and professionals in Hispanic Linguistics to the theoretical developments of Spanish phonology. The target audience of the book is graduate students in Hispanic Linguistics or Linguistics who are interested in Spanish phonology. Prior knowledge in the field of Linguistics is necessary to fully understand several of the new theories presented in the text. The book is organized in ten chapters plus an introduction. Each chapter is supplemented with a section of exercises and additional readings. There is also a glossary containing definitions for all relevant terminology introduced in the text. The introductory chapter, written by Pilar Prieto, defines the distinction between phonetics and phonology. It also includes a brief history of phonology. Moreover, the chapter contains a section where a general perspective of the linear model of generative phonology based on Chomsky and Halle (1968) is presented. The last section is concerned with a discussion of new developments including Optimality Theory and laboratory phonology. Alfonso Morales-Front presents the basics of phonetics analysis in the first chapter. Morales-Front has based his discussion on the articulatory criteria in phonetics to describe vowels and consonants. This chapter also introduces the notion of distinctive features as presented in linear models of phonology. The second chapter, written by Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño, is centered on describing the autosegmental theory of phonology. Núñez Cedeño exemplifies the principles of autosegmental phonology by discussing particular phenomena such as aspiration and nasal assimilation. There is also a section related to the geometric architecture of the autosegmental representation with discussions about prosody and the syllabic structure of plurals using relevant examples. The final section includes a description of the levels of representation and the universal convention of association. Núñez Cedeño begins chapter three by discussing the innovations of autosegmental theory, conceived in the 80s and 90s as a hierarchal model. The motivation for this transition into a new model is based on the knowledge of patterns found in phonological processes crosslinguistically. The sections of the chapter are dedicated to explaining the new applications with Spanish examples. Chapter 4, also written by Núñez Cedeño, is concerned with describing underspecification theory. Núñez Cedeño provides a complete review of the various versions of the theory while also providing relevant examples of its application to phonological processes concerning vowels [End Page 359] and consonants. The chapter ends with a section highlighting differences between the radical version and the restrictive version of underspecification theory. Chapter 5, written by José Ignacio Hualde, provides a general overview of syllabification in Spanish. The chapter includes sections detailing general principles, moraic structure, hiatus and diphthongs, resyllabification of vowel sequences, and syllabic contact. It offers a complete and straightforward presentation of Spanish syllabic structure with relevant examples that the reader will find both illustrative and helpful. Pilar Prieto opens chapter six with an introduction to lexical phonology. Also included in the chapter are several examples from Spanish, Catalan, French, and English. The chapter presents a well-informed summary of lexical phonology and explains some of the implications for the analysis of Spanish data. Chapter 7, written by Alfonso Morales-Front, presents a description of stress patterns in Spanish. This complex issue is couched within metrical stress theory, and the formal implementation of stress in Spanish is discussed. A final section of the chapter is concerned with the main debatable issues regarding stress patterns in Spanish and their phonological analysis. José Ignacio Hualde provides an introduction to intonational phonology in chapter 8. Main concepts pertinent to the study of intonation are described including the notions of boundary tones, pitch accents, nuclear pitch accents and word order, and down-stepping and intonation. The chapter also presents a description of the

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