¹ I am indebted to C. F. Voegelin and David Olmsted for valuable suggestions.

^1a Following the practice of Kahane and Beym, I use a short dash in the examples to indicate open juncture, and italics to denote the sound (whether spelled or transcribed) which is used as a criterion of close juncture.

² Manual de entonación española: ‘La anteposición del predicado al sujeto en frases cortas liga ordinariamente a ambos elementos en una sola unidad; la anteposición del sujeto, por el contrario, parece llevar cierto reforzamiento de expresión que inclina a separar este elemento del resto de la frase.‘ (51–2.)

³ [z] is not an allophone of /s/ in Chilean Spanish. Besides, [s] is usually replaced, before consonant or pause, by [h], which is in contrast with [s].

⁴ [g] and [γ] are in free variation after pause in Chilean Spanish, the latter being perhaps more common.

⁵ See No. 7 in the list of vowel-substitutions further on. In the example here cited, the syllable arrangement is connected with the meaning of the phrase: sabe is 2d person ‘formal’, sabes is 2d person ‘familiar’.

⁶ See footnote 4.

⁷ This case is excluded because [d] always occurs after [1] and [r].

^7a This case is excluded because no new syllabic arrangement occurs.

⁸ This case is excluded because criterion 4 does not apply here.

⁹ The classification reads as follows: ‘first, phrases whose constituents are (for all practical purposes) always in close juncture; second, phrases certain of whose constituents are (for all practical purposes) never in close juncture; and third, phrases certain of whose constituents are sometimes in close juncture, sometimes not’.

¹⁰ Cf. Henry and Renée Kahane, The position of the actor expression in colloquial Mexican Spanish, Lg. 26.261 (1950).