A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final): Spanish /s/:

Brown, Esther L.; Torres Cacoullos, Rena

doi:10.1075/cilt.238.05bro

In:A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001
Edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 238] 2003
► pp. 21–38

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Spanish /s/:

A different story from beginning (initial) to end (final)

Esther L. Brown

Rena Torres Cacoullos

Published online: 16 October 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.238.05bro

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