View on Hiatus Resolution

I decided to post my questions on Matthew Alba’s article since even though I did not enjoy reading it, it provided some interesting information. First of all, I did not understand the importance of hiatus. Hiatus is defined as the occurrence of heterosyllabic adjacent vowels either at the word boundary (la-escuela) or at the syllable boundary (re-al) (251). The repeated example of ‘la escuela’ is not an occurrence that is particular of Spanish in my opinion. I think this happens in all languages. Researchers realize that hiatus occurs in many languages, but it is not tolerated, therefore resolution usually will occur. Would you agree with this claim, especially when I think examples such as wanna go, gonna go are a maintained reduced form and we can see that here reduction is done to simplify the expression. It is further stated that unreduced forms tend to be accessed/used more often than reduced forms. It is difficult for me to agree with this statement since I think the expressions as those mentioned above are high-frequency that should be or are accessed or used more often than the unreduced form. Therefore I thought this article should be categorized more of an informational article rather than actual research. I do not think resolution versus maintenance can be determined; it is simply the flow of speech.