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This thesis undertakes a comprehensive examination of the effects of a variety of social, phonological and morphosyntactic factors on the process of s-weakening in the Spanish of San Miguel, El Salvador. The corpus used in this study consists of sixteen speakers native to San Miguel, evenly distributed according to age, sex and socioeconomic status. It was found that s-weakening appears to be in stable variation and that it is primarily governed by phonological factors: the quality of the segment following the /s/, the position of the /s/ in the syllable and word, and whether the /s/ is in a stressed or an unstressed syllable. Regarding the quality of the following segments, it was found that coronal stops caused /s/ to resist weakening. Consequently, it is argued that /st/ and /sd/ sequences are partial geminates in this dialect of Spanish, i.e. they share a place node. An account of the phonological factors conditioning s-weakening is provided within the framework of Optimality Theory, utilising the notion of crucially unranked constraints.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2008. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 154 p. : ill., music. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University. / "Extrait de la Revue Hispanique, tome XIX."

Th. État--Lettres--Montpellier, 1980. / Bibliogr. p. 439-450. Index.

Diss.--Literaturwissenschaft--Zürich, 1978. / Bibliogr. p. 167-172.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.