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The pronunciations of neutral European and American Spanish are described according to the principles of Natural Phonotonetics. The vowels, consonants, structures, stress, and intonation are also presented for the traditional, colloquial, and mediatic accents, in addition to all regional accents all over the world. Also included are phonopses of foreign accents of Spanish, of American native languages, of diachronic stages, of foreign languages for useful comparisons. Some phonotonetic transcriptions and a phono-dictionary of more than 1,600 words are also provided.

3. The phono-articulatory apparatus

6. Bad and good ways to show the vowels of Spanish

7. Vowels & vocoids

8. Spanish vowels in detail

9. Diphthongs

10. Consonants & contoids

11. Phonation types

12. Nasals

13. Stops

14. Stopstrictives (or ‘affricates')

15. Constrictives (or ‘fricatives')

16. Spanish s /s/

17. Approximants (or ‘frictionless continuants')

18. Trills 6 taps (or ‘rhotics')

19. Laterals

20. Simplification

21. Vowels and vowel-like approximants

22. Vowel clusters between words

23. Vowel and consonant clusters between words

24. Consonant clusters (within and between words)

25. Word stress

26. Sentence stress

27. Stress with particular words

28. Secondary stress

29. Prominence, rhythm, and pauses

30. Pitch, rate, & phono-texts

31. A first approach to intonation

32. A second step towards intonation

33. On protunes & tunes

34. The intonation of the two neutral accents

35. Questions

36. Tune modifications

37. Parentheses and quotations

38. Considerations on communicative ‘roles'

39. Considerations on intonation

40. Paraphonics

41. Paraphonic use of pitch

42. Other paraphonic elements

43. Conversations

44. Mini-phono-dictionary

45. Mediatic European-Spanish pronunciation

46. Uneducated & colloquial pronunciation

47. Two diachronic stages