Phonetics and phonology : interactions and interrelations / edited by Marina Vigario, Sonia Frota, M. Joao Freitas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vigário, Marina Cláudia.

Frota, Sonia.

Freitas, Maria João.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 306

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phonetics.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

vi, 290 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aim of this paper is to account for the phonological adaptation of loanwords in Eastern Catalan. As the phonology of these new words deviates from that of the native Catalan vocabulary set (with a certain amount of variation among speakers), the new phonetic features would seem to be borrowed from Spanish. We suggest that a new phonology has emerged whose purpose is to identify loans among the lexicon, the most striking element of this phonology being a harmony effect on stressed mid vowels in the presence of post-tonic [+ATR] mid vowels. The existence of unstressed [+ATR] mid vowels [e, o] in Eastern Catalan has been previously interpreted as lexical exceptions to vowel reduction (Fabra 1912 and Mascaró 2002, among others). However, the phonetic variation in the new lexicon is analyzed here as being fully consistent with Catalan phonology within the theory of lexical strata (Itô & Mester 1999).

Contents:

Schwa in American English V+/r/ sequences / María Riera, Joaquín Romero & Ben Parrell

Perception of word stress in Castilian Spanish : the effects of sentence intonation and vowel type / Marta Ortega-Llebaria & Pilar Prieto

Do complex pitch gestures induce syllable lengthening in Catalan and Spanish? / Pilar Prieto & Marta Ortega-Llebaria

Cues to contrastive focus in Romanian / Olson Manolescu & Marta Ortega-Llebaria

The phonetics of sentence-initial topic and focus in adult and child Dutch / Aoju Chen

Prosodic structure and consonant development across languages / Timothy Arbisi-Kelm & Mary E. Beckman

Rhythmic and prosodic contrast in Venetan and Sicilian Italian / Laurence White, Elinor Payne & Sven L. Mattys

Stem boundary and stress effects on syllabification in Spanish / Teresa Cabré & Maria Ohannesian

Prosodic and segmental effects on vowel intrusion duration in Spanish /R C/ clusters / Benjamin Schmeiser

Acoustic and aerodynamic factors in the interaction of features : the case of nasality and voicing / Maria Josep Solé

Fixed and variable properties of the palatalization of dental stops in Brazilian Portuguese in an Italian immigrant community / Elisa Battisti & Ben Hermans

Post-tonic vowel harmony in some dialects of central Italy : the role of prosodic structure, contrast, and consonants / Stefano Canalis

Vowel reduction and vowel harmony in eastern Catalan loanword phonology / Teresa Cabré.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612395529

9781282395527

1282395521

9789027289001

902728900X

OCLC:

527853542