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Chapter 15. Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress

A Stratal OT approach
  • Katerina Tetzloff
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Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics
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Abstract

Regular Spanish stress is stem-final, but many exceptions exist. Though exceptions must be accounted for, they must not yield ungrammaticality. The current proposal distinguishes exceptionality from ungrammaticality by arguing for some degree of quantity sensitivity in Spanish stress assignment. Past approaches that do not take syllable weight into account predict that a nonce input, like rapind-o, if marked as exceptional, will bear ungrammatical, antepenultimate stress (*rápindo). This proposal resolves this by analyzing Spanish stress using Stratal OT, where Regular stress is stem-final. Lexically-indexed constraints allow for each of the exceptional stress patterns, without yielding ungrammatical forms. An exceptional nonce input like rapind-o appropriately receives penultimate stress (rapíndo) regardless of if it is marked as exceptional, thus not conflating exceptionality with ungrammaticality.

Abstract

Regular Spanish stress is stem-final, but many exceptions exist. Though exceptions must be accounted for, they must not yield ungrammaticality. The current proposal distinguishes exceptionality from ungrammaticality by arguing for some degree of quantity sensitivity in Spanish stress assignment. Past approaches that do not take syllable weight into account predict that a nonce input, like rapind-o, if marked as exceptional, will bear ungrammatical, antepenultimate stress (*rápindo). This proposal resolves this by analyzing Spanish stress using Stratal OT, where Regular stress is stem-final. Lexically-indexed constraints allow for each of the exceptional stress patterns, without yielding ungrammatical forms. An exceptional nonce input like rapind-o appropriately receives penultimate stress (rapíndo) regardless of if it is marked as exceptional, thus not conflating exceptionality with ungrammaticality.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. A. Interfaces
  6. Chapter 1. Picard subject clitics 11
  7. Chapter 2. A child’s view of Romance modification 35
  8. Chapter 3. Definite determiners in Romance 57
  9. B. Bridging issues at the CP-TP-vP levels
  10. Chapter 4. Differential object marking, oblique morphology, and enriched case hierarchies 81
  11. Chapter 5. A deletion account of referential null objects in Basque Spanish 97
  12. Chapter 6. Same EPP, different null subject type 111
  13. Chapter 7. On (un)grammatical sequences of se s in Spanish 127
  14. Chapter 8. On the interpretation of the Spanish 1st person plural pronoun 143
  15. C. Bridging issues at the PP-DP levels
  16. Chapter 9. French ne … que exceptives in prepositional contexts 163
  17. Chapter 10. Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance 177
  18. Chapter 11. Value and cardinality in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese 193
  19. Chapter 12. Formality by distance in Spanish and Catalan 207
  20. D. Bridging issues in linguistics
  21. Chapter 13. Cyclical change in affixal negation 225
  22. Chapter 14. Code-mixing and semantico-pragmatic resources in francophone Maine 243
  23. Chapter 15. Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress 257
  24. Index 273
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.360.15tet

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. A. Interfaces
  6. Chapter 1. Picard subject clitics 11
  7. Chapter 2. A child’s view of Romance modification 35
  8. Chapter 3. Definite determiners in Romance 57
  9. B. Bridging issues at the CP-TP-vP levels
  10. Chapter 4. Differential object marking, oblique morphology, and enriched case hierarchies 81
  11. Chapter 5. A deletion account of referential null objects in Basque Spanish 97
  12. Chapter 6. Same EPP, different null subject type 111
  13. Chapter 7. On (un)grammatical sequences of se s in Spanish 127
  14. Chapter 8. On the interpretation of the Spanish 1st person plural pronoun 143
  15. C. Bridging issues at the PP-DP levels
  16. Chapter 9. French ne … que exceptives in prepositional contexts 163
  17. Chapter 10. Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance 177
  18. Chapter 11. Value and cardinality in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese 193
  19. Chapter 12. Formality by distance in Spanish and Catalan 207
  20. D. Bridging issues in linguistics
  21. Chapter 13. Cyclical change in affixal negation 225
  22. Chapter 14. Code-mixing and semantico-pragmatic resources in francophone Maine 243
  23. Chapter 15. Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress 257
  24. Index 273
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