Abstract
Phonologically, Spanish tolerates sequences of adjacent vowels at a word boundary, but coalescence and deletion have been impressionistically identified at this juncture as phonetic resolution strategies (Alba, 2006). In other languages, phonetic measurements of vowels in hiatus show gradient distinctions between different prosodic environments, supporting a gestural overlap analysis that produces the perception of deletion or coalescence (for example, Igbo, Catalan, and Greek). The current experimental study investigates phonetic manifestations of vowel hiatus in four prosodic environments (IP, PP, Pwd, and clitic) in Spanish to determine whether hiatus resolution is accomplished by vowel deletion or gestural overlap. The study was conducted with nine native speakers of Peninsular Spanish. The duration and formant frequencies of vowel sequences was measured in read sentences that manipulated boundary strength separating the two vowels. Higher-level prosodic boundaries IP and PP produced no significant hi...
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