Manuel Almeida is professor of general linguistics at the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands). His research interests include experimental phonetics, social dialectology and sociolinguistics. He has published Tiempo y ritmo en el espa nol canario. Un estudio acústico (Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 1999), Sociolingüística (Universidad de La Laguna, 2003) and, in collaboration with Juan
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