Optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology / edited by Fernando Martinez-Gil, Sonia Colina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez-Gil, Fernando.

Colina, Sonia.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 99.

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish philology.

Physical Description:

viii, 560 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework of optimality theory. The book is structured around six major areas of phonological research: phonetics–phonology interface, segmental phonology, syllable structure and stress, morphophonology, language variation and change, and language acquisition, including general as well as more specialized articles. The reader is guided through the volume with the help of the introduction and a detailed index. The book will serve as core reading for advanced graduate-level phonology courses and seminars in Spanish linguistics, and in general linguistics phonology courses. It will also constitute an essential reference for researchers in phonology, phonological theory, and Spanish, and related areas, such as language acquisition, bilingualism, education, and speech and hearing science.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction

Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics–phonology interface

Phonological phrasing in Spanish

Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity

Depalatalization in Spanish revisited

Upstepping vowel height

The phonology of nasal consonants in five Spanish dialects

Optimality-theoretic advances in our understanding of Spanish syllable structure

Exceptional hiatuses in Spanish

The Spanish stress window

Morphological structure and phonological domains in Spanish denominal derivation

Gender allomorphy and epenthesis in Spanish

A paradigm account of Spanish number

Prefix boundaries in Spanish varieties

Optimality Theory and language change in Spanish

Duration, voice, and dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish

The interaction between faithfulness constraints and sociolinguistic variation

Sonority scales and syllable structure

Foot, word and phrase constraints in first language acquisition of Spanish stress

Acquistion of syllable structure in Spanish

Constraint conflict in the acquisition of clusters in Spanish

Subject index

Index of constraints

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-15474-5

9786612154744

90-272-9262-0