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This volume presents an Optimality-Theoretic (OT) analysis of the role of the syllable in Spanish phonology. The explanatory power of the syllable has earned it a central role in phonological theory, and this distinction has followed it into Optimality Theory. Chapter 1 divides simple and complex onsets and codas into well formed, ill formed, and unclear/marginal cases. Chapter 2 presents an OT analysis of syllabification. Chapter 3 demonstrates how not only the need for phonological repairs, but the specific repair strategies employed and even the variable application of some repairs follow from constraint interactions. Chapter 4 examines such ONSET-motivated phenomena as vowel merger and diphthong formation, discusses the possibility of ONSET-motivated epenthesis, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the underlying status of glides. Chapter 5 presents an analysis of coda phenomena, including several patterns of /s/ and nasal debuccalization with varying degrees of opacity, place assimilation by nasals and laterals, and 'depalatalization.' Chapter 6 concludes with a novel OT analysis of plural formation that obviates the need for the concatenation of a plural morpheme.

Book details

• Full title: Spanish Phonotactics
• Subtitle: An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis
• Author: Michael Shepherd
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108
• EAN: 9783639220575
• ID: 06829900
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Weight: 177 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 150 × 6 mm
• Published: 2010

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