Main description:
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, 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.
Table of contents:
- Introduction. Optimality theory and Spanish phonology
- Section 1. Phonetics-phonology
- 1. Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics-phonology interface
- 2. Phonological phrasing in Spanish
- Section 2. Segmental phonology
- 1. Hiatus resolution and comparative interaction
- 2. Depalatalization in Spanish revisited
- 3. Upstepping vowel height
- 4. The phonology of implosive nasals in five Spanish dialects
- Section 3. Syllable structure and stress
- 1. Optimality-theoretic advances in accounting for Spanish syllable structure
- 2. Exceptional hiatuses in Catalan and Spanish
- 3. The Spanish stress window
- Section 4. Phonology-morphology interface
- 1. Morphological structure and phonological domains in Spanish denominal derivation
- 2. Gender allomorphy and epenthesis in Spanish
- 3. A paradigm account of Spanish number
- 4. Prefix boundaries in Spanish varieties
- Section 5. Language variation and change
- 1. Optimality theory and language change in Spanish
- 2. Dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish
- 3. Optimality theory and socio-phonological variation
- 4. Sonority scales and syllable structure
- Section 6. Language Acquisition
- 1. Foot, word and phrase constraints in first language acquisition of spanish stress
- 2. L1 syllable acquisition
- 3. Conspiracy and conflict in the acquisition of tauto- and heterosyllabic clusters in Spanish
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, 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.
Table of contents:
- Introduction. Optimality theory and Spanish phonology
- Section 1. Phonetics-phonology
- 1. Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics-phonology interface
- 2. Phonological phrasing in Spanish
- Section 2. Segmental phonology
- 1. Hiatus resolution and comparative interaction
- 2. Depalatalization in Spanish revisited
- 3. Upstepping vowel height
- 4. The phonology of implosive nasals in five Spanish dialects
- Section 3. Syllable structure and stress
- 1. Optimality-theoretic advances in accounting for Spanish syllable structure
- 2. Exceptional hiatuses in Catalan and Spanish
- 3. The Spanish stress window
- Section 4. Phonology-morphology interface
- 1. Morphological structure and phonological domains in Spanish denominal derivation
- 2. Gender allomorphy and epenthesis in Spanish
- 3. A paradigm account of Spanish number
- 4. Prefix boundaries in Spanish varieties
- Section 5. Language variation and change
- 1. Optimality theory and language change in Spanish
- 2. Dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish
- 3. Optimality theory and socio-phonological variation
- 4. Sonority scales and syllable structure
- Section 6. Language Acquisition
- 1. Foot, word and phrase constraints in first language acquisition of spanish stress
- 2. L1 syllable acquisition
- 3. Conspiracy and conflict in the acquisition of tauto- and heterosyllabic clusters in Spanish