Sonia Colina
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Colina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Colina |
| SIGNATURE | COLINA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4893-9047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessment of Translation
The assessment or evaluation of translation quality remains a controversial issue both in translation studies and in applied linguistics. Despite extensive debate, no agreement exists as to how translations should be evaluated. Lack of agreement can be seen as a consequence of a multiplicity of understandings of quality and of translation existing in the relevant fields. This entry offers a critical review of major approaches to quality evaluatio…
Introduction to the special issue of Probus on Romance phonetics and phonology
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals
Spirantization in Spanish: The role of the underlying representation
Spirantization is one of the most frequently studied phonological phenomena of Spanish (Barlow, Jessica A. 2003. The stop-spirant alternation in Spanish: Converging evidence for a fortition account.Southwest Journal of Linguistics22. 51-86; Zampini, Mary. 1994. The role of native language transfer and task formality in the acquisition of Spanish spirantization.Hispania77. 470-481; among others). For a majority of dialects, Spanish voiced plosives…
Galician coda restrictions and plural clusters
The present study investigates the phonology and phonetics of Galician post-vocalic velar nasals. Galician has very strict coda restrictions – it does not allow for complex codas. One exception to this restriction is found in the plurals of words ending in a nasal consonant, which add /s/ to the “right” of a noun or adjective: man ‘hand’, mans ‘hands’; pan ‘bread’, pans ‘breads’. The present study puts forward a proposal, initially based on synch…
Galician geada: In defense of underspecification in Optimality Theory
Spanish Morphophonology
In recent years a sizable number of morphophonological phenomena have attracted considerable attention from Spanish phonologists. This article presents a current view of the controversies within the context of two recurring topics: the validity of morphophonological generalizations and the interaction of morphological and phonological processes. Some of the processes discussed are velar and coronal softening, diphthongization, word-classes, stem …
Sibilant Voicing in Ecuadorian Spanish
Highland Ecuadorian Spanish has a unique process of /s/ voicing that differs from other dialects of Spanish in that word-final /s/ is realized as [z] intervocalically (Lipski 1989, 1994, Robinson 1979). Ecuadorian /s/ voicing is problematic for serial models of phonology as well as for some output-to-output analyses within Optimality Theory. It is argued that the data can be accounted for by an optimalitytheoretic analysis that incorporates phone…
The Role of Language Variation in Mental Grammars: An Optimality-Theoretic Perspective
This paper argues that language variation plays a critical role in the shaping and understanding of mental grammars and that Optimality Theory is a crucial player in demonstrating the relevance of variation data for advancing our knowledge of mental grammars. It takes the position that experimental, quantitative and variationist studies need to formalize the results of their research (cf. Díaz-Campos & Colina 2006) and propose grammars that gener…
The phonetics and phonology of intervocalic velar nasals in Galician
No "double plurals" in Dominican Spanish: An Optimality-Theoretic Account
In addition to standard methods of pluralization, Dominican Spanish has an alternative plural formation mechanism, normally referred to as the “double plural,” in which -(e)se [(e)se] is adjoined to the base, libro > librose ‘book-books’, mujer > mujerese ‘woman-women’ (Jiménez Sabater 1976; Núñez-Cedeño 1980; Harris 1980; Terrell 1986; Núñez-Cedeño 2003). Extant analyses of double plural formation in Dominican Spanish suer from framework-specifi…
Educating Parents in the Spanish-Speaking Community: A Look at Translated Educational Materials
Federal legislation (White House Executive Order 13166, 2000) mandates that language services be provided to limited English proficient populations by health care providers receiving federal funding. In order to do this, some basic resources have been developed to administer medical services. Nevertheless, the translation aspects of these guidelines often lack many components that would be necessary to assure the functional adequacy of the transl…
Identity constraints and Spanish resyllabification
Spanish truncation processes: The Emergence of the Unmarked
Dans le cadre de la theorie de l'optimalite, l'A. analyse la troncation nominale et la formation hypocoristique en espagnol. Il montre qu'une analyse basee sur des contraintes est preferable par rapport aux analyses precedentes parce qu'elle n'exige pas de condition - optionnelle ou obligatoire - sur la forme de la seconde syllabe. Il montre egalement que la structure non marquee de la syllabe joue un grand role dans les processus de troncation, …
Spanish truncation processes: The Emergence of the Unmarked
Dans le cadre de la theorie de l'optimalite, l'A. analyse la troncation nominale et la formation hypocoristique en espagnol. Il montre qu'une analyse basee sur des contraintes est preferable par rapport aux analyses precedentes parce qu'elle n'exige pas de condition - optionnelle ou obligatoire - sur la forme de la seconde syllabe. Il montre egalement que la structure non marquee de la syllabe joue un grand role dans les processus de troncation, …
Identity constraints and Spanish resyllabification
The phonetics and phonology of intervocalic velar nasals in Galician
Spirantization in Spanish: The role of the underlying representation
Spirantization is one of the most frequently studied phonological phenomena of Spanish (Barlow, Jessica A. 2003. The stop-spirant alternation in Spanish: Converging evidence for a fortition account.Southwest Journal of Linguistics22. 51-86; Zampini, Mary. 1994. The role of native language transfer and task formality in the acquisition of Spanish spirantization.Hispania77. 470-481; among others). For a majority of dialects, Spanish voiced plosives…
Galician geada: In defense of underspecification in Optimality Theory
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals
No "double plurals" in Dominican Spanish: An Optimality-Theoretic Account
In addition to standard methods of pluralization, Dominican Spanish has an alternative plural formation mechanism, normally referred to as the “double plural,” in which -(e)se [(e)se] is adjoined to the base, libro > librose ‘book-books’, mujer > mujerese ‘woman-women’ (Jiménez Sabater 1976; Núñez-Cedeño 1980; Harris 1980; Terrell 1986; Núñez-Cedeño 2003). Extant analyses of double plural formation in Dominican Spanish suer from framework-specifi…
Educating Parents in the Spanish-Speaking Community: A Look at Translated Educational Materials
Federal legislation (White House Executive Order 13166, 2000) mandates that language services be provided to limited English proficient populations by health care providers receiving federal funding. In order to do this, some basic resources have been developed to administer medical services. Nevertheless, the translation aspects of these guidelines often lack many components that would be necessary to assure the functional adequacy of the transl…
Spanish truncation processes: The Emergence of the Unmarked
Dans le cadre de la theorie de l'optimalite, l'A. analyse la troncation nominale et la formation hypocoristique en espagnol. Il montre qu'une analyse basee sur des contraintes est preferable par rapport aux analyses precedentes parce qu'elle n'exige pas de condition - optionnelle ou obligatoire - sur la forme de la seconde syllabe. Il montre egalement que la structure non marquee de la syllabe joue un grand role dans les processus de troncation, …
Identity constraints and Spanish resyllabification
Educating Parents in the Spanish-Speaking Community: A Look at Translated Educational Materials
Federal legislation (White House Executive Order 13166, 2000) mandates that language services be provided to limited English proficient populations by health care providers receiving federal funding. In order to do this, some basic resources have been developed to administer medical services. Nevertheless, the translation aspects of these guidelines often lack many components that would be necessary to assure the functional adequacy of the transl…
The phonetics and phonology of intervocalic velar nasals in Galician
No "double plurals" in Dominican Spanish: An Optimality-Theoretic Account
In addition to standard methods of pluralization, Dominican Spanish has an alternative plural formation mechanism, normally referred to as the “double plural,” in which -(e)se [(e)se] is adjoined to the base, libro > librose ‘book-books’, mujer > mujerese ‘woman-women’ (Jiménez Sabater 1976; Núñez-Cedeño 1980; Harris 1980; Terrell 1986; Núñez-Cedeño 2003). Extant analyses of double plural formation in Dominican Spanish suer from framework-specifi…
The Role of Language Variation in Mental Grammars: An Optimality-Theoretic Perspective
This paper argues that language variation plays a critical role in the shaping and understanding of mental grammars and that Optimality Theory is a crucial player in demonstrating the relevance of variation data for advancing our knowledge of mental grammars. It takes the position that experimental, quantitative and variationist studies need to formalize the results of their research (cf. Díaz-Campos & Colina 2006) and propose grammars that gener…
Sibilant Voicing in Ecuadorian Spanish
Highland Ecuadorian Spanish has a unique process of /s/ voicing that differs from other dialects of Spanish in that word-final /s/ is realized as [z] intervocalically (Lipski 1989, 1994, Robinson 1979). Ecuadorian /s/ voicing is problematic for serial models of phonology as well as for some output-to-output analyses within Optimality Theory. It is argued that the data can be accounted for by an optimalitytheoretic analysis that incorporates phone…
Spanish Morphophonology
In recent years a sizable number of morphophonological phenomena have attracted considerable attention from Spanish phonologists. This article presents a current view of the controversies within the context of two recurring topics: the validity of morphophonological generalizations and the interaction of morphological and phonological processes. Some of the processes discussed are velar and coronal softening, diphthongization, word-classes, stem …
Galician geada: In defense of underspecification in Optimality Theory
Galician coda restrictions and plural clusters
The present study investigates the phonology and phonetics of Galician post-vocalic velar nasals. Galician has very strict coda restrictions – it does not allow for complex codas. One exception to this restriction is found in the plurals of words ending in a nasal consonant, which add /s/ to the “right” of a noun or adjective: man ‘hand’, mans ‘hands’; pan ‘bread’, pans ‘breads’. The present study puts forward a proposal, initially based on synch…
Spirantization in Spanish: The role of the underlying representation
Spirantization is one of the most frequently studied phonological phenomena of Spanish (Barlow, Jessica A. 2003. The stop-spirant alternation in Spanish: Converging evidence for a fortition account.Southwest Journal of Linguistics22. 51-86; Zampini, Mary. 1994. The role of native language transfer and task formality in the acquisition of Spanish spirantization.Hispania77. 470-481; among others). For a majority of dialects, Spanish voiced plosives…
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals
Assessment of Translation
The assessment or evaluation of translation quality remains a controversial issue both in translation studies and in applied linguistics. Despite extensive debate, no agreement exists as to how translations should be evaluated. Lack of agreement can be seen as a consequence of a multiplicity of understandings of quality and of translation existing in the relevant fields. This entry offers a critical review of major approaches to quality evaluatio…
Introduction to the special issue of Probus on Romance phonetics and phonology
Linguistics (13 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Phonology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (6 works) · Mathematics (4 works)