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<DOCINFOAUTHOR""TITLE"Optimality-TheoreticStudiesinSpanishPhonology"SUBJECT"LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday,Volume99"KEYWORDS""SIZEHEIGHT"240"WIDTH"160"VOFFSET"4"> Optimality-TheoreticStudiesinSpanishPhonology LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday(LA)providesaplatformfororiginalmonographstudies intosynchronicanddiachroniclinguistics.StudiesinLAconfrontempiricalandtheoretical problemsasthesearecurrentlydiscussedinsyntax,semantics,morphology,phonology,and systematicpragmaticswiththeaimtoestablishrobustempiricalgeneralizationswithina universalisticperspective. SeriesEditors WernerAbraham EllyvanGelderen UniversityofVienna ArizonaStateUniversity AdvisoryEditorialBoard CedricBoeckx IanRoberts HarvardUniversity CambridgeUniversity GuglielmoCinque KenSafir UniversityofVenice RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswickNJ GüntherGrewendorf LisadeMenaTravis J.W.Goethe-University,Frankfurt McGillUniversity LilianeHaegeman StenVikner UniversityofLille,France UniversityofAarhus HubertHaider C.Jan-WouterZwart UniversityofSalzburg UniversityofGroningen ChristerPlatzack UniversityofLund Volume99 Optimality-TheoreticStudiesinSpanishPhonology EditedbyFernandoMartínez-GilandSoniaColina Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology Editedby Fernando Martínez-Gil TheOhioStateUniversity Sonia Colina UniversityofArizona JohnBenjaminsPublishingCompany Amsterdam(cid:2)/(cid:2)Philadelphia TM Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements 8 ofAmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences–Permanence ofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ansiz39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Optimality-theoreticstudiesinSpanishphonology /editedbyFernando Martínez-GilandSoniaColina. p. cm.(LinguistikAktuell/LinguisticsToday,issn0166–0829;v.99) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. 1.Spanishphilology.I.Martínez-Gil,Fernando.II.Colina,Sonia. PC4071.O68 2006 461--dc22 2006052032 isbn9789027233639(Hb;alk.paper) ©2006–JohnBenjaminsB.V. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyform,byprint,photoprint,microfilm,or anyothermeans,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. JohnBenjaminsPublishingCo.·P.O.Box36224·1020meAmsterdam·TheNetherlands JohnBenjaminsNorthAmerica·P.O.Box27519·Philadelphiapa19118-0519·usa To Suzie, Colin, and Paul To Eric, Mariana and Adrian Table of contents Introduction. Optimality theory and Spanish phonology (by the editors) 1 Section 1. Phonetics–phonology interface 1. Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics–phonology interface 15 Travis G. Bradley, University of California, Davis 2. Phonological phrasing in Spanish 39 Pilar Prieto, Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Section 2. Segmental phonology 1. Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity 62 Eric Baković, University of California, San Diego 2. Depalatalization in Spanish revisited 74 Maria-Rosa Lloret, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, and Joan Mascaró, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 3. Upstepping vowel height: A constraint-based account of metaphony in Proto-Spanish and Lena Asturian 99 Fernando Martínez-Gil, The Ohio State University 4. The phonology of nasal consonants in five Spanish dialects 146 Carlos Eduardo Piñeros, University of Iowa Section 3. Syllable structure and stress 1. Optimality-theoretic advances in our understanding of Spanish syllable structure 172 Sonia Colina, The University of Arizona 2. Exceptional hiatuses in Catalan and Spanish 205 Teresa Cabré, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Pilar Prieto, Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 3. The Spanish stress window 239 Iggy Roca, University of Essex, England viii Table of contents Section 4. Phonology–morphology interface 1. Morphological structure and phonological domains in Spanish denominal derivation 278 Ricardo Bermúdez Otero, University of Manchester, England 2. Gender allomorphy and epenthesis in Spanish 312 Eulàlia Bonet, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 3. A paradigm account of Spanish number 339 Mario Saltarelli, University of Southern California 4. Prefix boundaries in Spanish varieties: A non-derivational OT account 358 Caroline Wiltshire, University of Florida Section 5. Language variation and change 1. Optimality theory and language change in Spanish 378 D. Eric Holt, University of South Carolina 2. Duration, voice, and dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish 399 Gary K. Baker, University of Georgia 3. The interaction between faithfulness constraints and sociolinguistic variation: The acquisition of phonological variation in first language speakers 424 Manuel Díaz-Campos, Indiana University, and Sonia Colina, The University of Arizona 4. Sonority scales and syllable structure: Toward a formal account of phonological change 447 Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Ohio State University Section 6. Language Acquisition 1. Foot, word and phrase constraints in first language acquisition of Spanish stress 470 Conxita Lleó and Javier Arias, University of Hamburg, Germany 2. Acquistion of syllable structure in Spanish 497 Alfonso Morales-Front, Georgetown University 3. Constraint conflict in the acquisition of clusters in Spanish 525 Jessica A. Barlow, San Diego State University Subject index 549 Index of constraints 559 Introduction Fernando Martínez-Gil and Sonia Colina Optimality Theory (OT) is undoubtedly the most influential phonological theory of the last decade. Its central tenet is that phonological patterns in human language arise in the resolution of conflicts among competing constraints. OT has been applied extensively to problems in a number of areas within the study of sound structure, including synchronic phonological analysis, the phonology–phonetics interface, the phonology–morphology interface, phonological and analogical change in historical linguistics, language variation, dialectology, and language acquisition. Different types of book-length OT publications have appeared recently, such as thematic guides, text- books, collections of articles on specific aspects of the phonology, and so on. To our knowledge, however, there exists no comprehensive collection of OT research that focuses exclusively on the phonology of one particular language. This volume does precisely this for Spanish, a language in possession of a rich literature of phonological research of its own. Given the availability of a substantial amount of dialectal data, Spanish is also a very interesting testing ground for optimality-theoretic claims with regard to language variation. This book is structured around six major areas of phonological research. In ad- dition to traditional areas of phonological analysis, such as segmental and prosodic structure, it addresses closely related subareas, such as grammar interface (phonetics and morphology), intonation, dialectal variation, historical phonology, and phono- logical acquisition. Although the book focuses on Optimality-theoretic contributions to Spanish phonology, especially in view of the dominant role of OT in current phono- logical theory, it also offers a comprehensive sample of issues that have raised a great deal of interest and theoretical debate in Spanish phonology within the generative framework in recent years, such as consonantal lenition, glide fortition, s-aspiration, n-velarization, nasal place assimilation and neutralization, the depalatalization of coda nasals and laterals, the status of word-final vowels, including -e, the role of phonology in inflectional and derivational phonology, the problem of exceptional hiatuses, the metrical principles that govern Spanish primary stress, the status of “glides”, and the nature of phonological phrasing. The contributions contained in this volume also address many topics current- ly under debate in OT in general, such as opacity, the analysis of analogy in lan- guage variation and change, chain shifts, level stratification in OT, output-to-output correspondence, local constraint conjunction, Dispersion Theory, modeling variation
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