Non-agreement on Romance disagreements

Disagreement rules, referral rules, and the Spanish feminine article el

“…In recent pages of the Journal of Linguistics, Frans Plank (1984), Arnold Zwicky (1985), and Rebecca Posner (1985) have discussed the theoretical significance of the fact that in Spanish el replaces the normal singular feminine definite article la immediately before a noun beginning with [a], e.g. el dgua fria 'the cold water' instead of expected *la dguafria.…”