SPANISH 341

Spanish Sound Structure

Description

Provides advanced Spanish learners with a solid foundation
in Spanish phonetics and phonology. Spanish sounds are
explained and practiced in order to minimise nativelanguage transfer. Students learn articulatory phonetics,
phonetic transcription, and sound-pattern recognition,
skills that enable them to discern native pronunciations
and discover the principles that underlie the Spanish sound
system.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline.

Digital Course Outlines for 2026 will be refreshed around November/December.

Availability 2026

Not taught in 2026

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Eduardo Piñeros

Reading/Texts

Piñeros, Carlos-Eduardo. Estructura de los sonidos del español. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, Prentice Hall, 2008, 414 pp.

Quilis, Antonio y Joseph A. Fernandez. Curso de fonetica y fonologfa espafiolas. Madrid: Consejo Superior de lnvestigaciones Cientfficas. 1996.

Recommended Reading

Canfield, D. Lincoln. Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1981.
Lipski, John. El espafiol de America. Madrid: Catedra. 2007. 
Palacios Alcaine, Azucena. El espafiol en America. Barcelona: Ariel. 2008. 
Zamora Vicente, Alonso. Dialectologfa espafiola. Madrid: Gredos. 1978. 

Points

SPANISH 341: 15 points

Prerequisites

15 points from SPANISH 201, 278, 319, 321, 377, 378

Restrictions

SPANISH 741