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dc.contributor.advisorKrämer, Martin
dc.contributor.authorMartínez-Paricio, Violeta
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-19T11:53:03Z
dc.date.available2013-12-19T11:53:03Z
dc.date.issued2013-12-11
dc.description.abstractThis thesis presents a principled theory of bounded recursive footing. Building on previous research on metrical stress, and couched within the framework of Prosodic Hierarchy Theory, I argue that the rehabilitation of recursive feet in phonological representations leads to an improvement of our theory of prosody. I investigate the major driving forces that may cause recursion at the foot level and demonstrate that reference to recursive and non-recursive feet in various related and unrelated languages (e.g. Wargamay, Yidiɲ, Chugach, English, Dutch, German, Gilbertese, Seneca, Ryukyuan, Tripura Bangla, Cayuvava) allows us to provide a unified account of a wide range of prosodically-conditioned phenomena which would otherwise remain unexplained. In particular, I demonstrate that the assignment of binary and ternary stress, certain tonal distributions, some puzzling cases of vowel lengthening, consonant fortition, vowel reduction and consonant weakening all clearly benefit from recursion-based analyses. In arguing for the need for recursive feet in phonological representations, I identify new strength relations in prosodic systems. Besides the well-established strength dichotomy between the head of a foot (i.e. the strong branch of a foot) and the dependent of a foot (i.e. its weak branch), I show that languages may distinguish between further metrical prominence positions. These additional required positions do not need to be stipulated as they come for free in a framework that allows recursion at the level of the foot.en
dc.description.doctoraltypeph.d.en
dc.description.popularabstractProsodic Phonology Theory has demonstrated over the years that the rhythmic patterns of languages (i.e. stress, tone, intonation) can be adequately accounted for when the grammar is able to refer to a small set of universal and hierarchically organized prosodic constituents (e.g. syllables, metrical feet, prosodic words, intonational phrases, etc.). Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that a wide range of phonological/morphophonological processes may receive more explanatory accounts when alluding to these constituents rather than to isolated/arbitrary groups of segments within the phonological string. Expanding on these ideas, this dissertation investigates the hypothesis that natural languages might also be able to refer to recursive prosodic categories (i.e. prosodic categories X that immediately dominate constituents X). In particular, this thesis explores the possibility that natural languages exhibit prosodic recursion at the level of the foot, the category that lies between the syllable and the prosodic word. On the basis of a wide range of phonological and morphophonological phenomena (e.g. stress and pitch assignment, vowel lengthening/shortening, ternary rhythm, vowel reduction, fortition and weakening of consonants, etc.) in a variety of languages, I examine the representational and computational predictions of a theory that allows recursive feet. I show that the word-internal rhythmic peculiarities of several languages (Wargamay, Yidiɲ, Chugach, English, Dutch, German, Gilbertese, Seneca, Ryukyuan, Tripura Bangla, Cayuvava) are insightfully analyzed once phonological representations allow feet to dominate other feet. This approach allows us to account for a wide range of phonological phenomena in an illuminating and unified way without requiring us to resort to new language-particular categories.en
dc.description.sponsorshipCASTLen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/5658
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_5354
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2013 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en
dc.titleAn exploration of minimal and maximal metrical feeten
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.typeDoktorgradsavhandlingen


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