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Spanish Plural Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

James Foley
James Foley*
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University
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Abstract

The establishment of abstract underlying forms, along with the recognition of certain basic rules such as contraction of successive identical segments, apocope, etc., greatly simplifies the formation of Spanish plurals, as well as accounting for divers other phenomena such as stress position and word-final assibilation.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 2-Part1 , June 1967 , pp. 486 - 493
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by Linguistic Society of America

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Footnotes

*

I am indebted to James Harris, David Perlmutter, Paul Postal, and Sol Saporta for constructive criticism of an earlier version of this article. I am also grateful to William Bright for valuable suggestions regarding the final form of the manuscript.

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Saporta, Sol. 1965. Ordered rules, dialect differences, and historical processes. Lg. 41. 218–24.Google Scholar
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