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El estudio científico del lenguaje humano y las lenguas. The scientific study of human language.

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¿Cómo se denomina el concepto "diphthongization" en el español?

Diptongación es el término que se emplea en castellano: diptongación f. Fon. Acción y efecto de diptongar. Puedes ver en Google Scholar (es): "diptongación" que el término sí se usa en el ámbito …
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Are there any dialects of modern Spanish which preserve a phonemic distinction between b and v?

Puerto Rican Spanish As mentioned in this Linguistics SE question, a study on Puerto Rican Spanish speakers showed that they pronounce orthographic "v" /b/ as [v] more than half the time, but never pr …
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Why do "beer" and "cherry" have similar words in Spanish and Portuguese? What is the histori...

It's coincidence - both these words were similar in Latin (and hence maintained their similarity through to Spanish), but ultimately come from unrelated origins: cereza esp ← ceresia vulg lat ← cerasi …
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¿Por qué nos quedamos con la forma "sandio" y no con "sandío", tras siglos de coexistencia d...

I think you may be being misled by the transcription in CORDE's database. Accents were not generally used in Spanish until the 16th century: In general, the accent mark was not employed in manuscr …
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Why do "ci/ce" and "zi/ze" both represent the /θ/ sound ? What is the historical origin of t...

Historically they did represent different sounds, but have since merged in Spanish: The usual orthography in modern Spanish for /θ/ is "c" before "e, i" and "z" elsewhere. However, some words (mostly …
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