Spanish language in American structuralist phonology

Abstract

This paper deals with the historiographical study of the main lines of American structuralism or distributionalism in the field of Spanish phonology. Thus, the grounds of this linguistic trend are outlined, and the main works applying its principles to the phonological characterization of Spanish are analyzed. These studies, little known sometimes, represent early phonological reflections and show the specific interpretation of this school compared to European works. Consequently, this paper aims to contribute to the knowledge of the history of phonological studies of Spanish.