The intricate connection between diphthongs and stress in Spanish
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2013Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
Author
Martínez-Paricio, VioletaAbstract
This article investigates the interaction of gliding and default stress in Spanish and provides a unified
constraint-based analysis of the two phenomena. It is argued that a better understanding of the
representations/constraints responsible for the default patterns of gliding and stress in Spanish is
achieved when syllabic and metrical structure are treated as interdependent. The originality of the
proposal lies in the idea that, contrary to most common patterns of extrametricality at the edges of
words, word final consonants and word final offglides are claimed to be the only moraic codas in the
language. Within the present analysis, default patterns of gliding and stress are accomplished via the
interaction of well-established markedness constraints, whereas exceptions to default (i.e. marked stress
and the so-called exceptional hiatus) are all explained by the same mechanism, i.e. lexical prosodic
specifications to which output must be faithful.
Publisher
UiT Norges arktiske universitetUiT The Arctic University of Norway
Citation
Nordlyd (2013) s. 166-195Metadata
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