Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity
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Eric J. Bakovic
Abstract
Potential vowel hiatus between words in Chicano Spanish is always resolved using one of several strategies, the choice among these strategies being influenced by several factors. One of these is the avoidance of adjacent segment identity, but complete identity appears not to be required: differences with respect to the feature [±high] are ignored in a specific set of cases. The analysis of these facts presented here supports the general proposal advanced by Baković (2005) that the avoidance of adjacent similar segments is due to the simultaneous satisfaction a constraint No-Long, which penalizes completely identical adjacent segments only, and other independently motivated constraints in the grammar.
Abstract
Potential vowel hiatus between words in Chicano Spanish is always resolved using one of several strategies, the choice among these strategies being influenced by several factors. One of these is the avoidance of adjacent segment identity, but complete identity appears not to be required: differences with respect to the feature [±high] are ignored in a specific set of cases. The analysis of these facts presented here supports the general proposal advanced by Baković (2005) that the avoidance of adjacent similar segments is due to the simultaneous satisfaction a constraint No-Long, which penalizes completely identical adjacent segments only, and other independently motivated constraints in the grammar.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics–phonology interface 15
- Phonological phrasing in Spanish 39
- Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity 62
- Depalatalization in Spanish revisited 74
- Upstepping vowel height 99
- The phonology of nasal consonants in five Spanish dialects 146
- Optimality-theoretic advances in our understanding of Spanish syllable structure 172
- Exceptional hiatuses in Spanish 205
- The Spanish stress window 239
- Morphological structure and phonological domains in Spanish denominal derivation 278
- Gender allomorphy and epenthesis in Spanish 312
- A paradigm account of Spanish number 339
- Prefix boundaries in Spanish varieties 358
- Optimality Theory and language change in Spanish 378
- Duration, voice, and dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish 399
- The interaction between faithfulness constraints and sociolinguistic variation 424
- Sonority scales and syllable structure 447
- Foot, word and phrase constraints in first language acquisition of Spanish stress 470
- Acquistion of syllable structure in Spanish 497
- Constraint conflict in the acquisition of clusters in Spanish 525
- Subject index 549
- Index of constraints 559
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics–phonology interface 15
- Phonological phrasing in Spanish 39
- Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity 62
- Depalatalization in Spanish revisited 74
- Upstepping vowel height 99
- The phonology of nasal consonants in five Spanish dialects 146
- Optimality-theoretic advances in our understanding of Spanish syllable structure 172
- Exceptional hiatuses in Spanish 205
- The Spanish stress window 239
- Morphological structure and phonological domains in Spanish denominal derivation 278
- Gender allomorphy and epenthesis in Spanish 312
- A paradigm account of Spanish number 339
- Prefix boundaries in Spanish varieties 358
- Optimality Theory and language change in Spanish 378
- Duration, voice, and dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish 399
- The interaction between faithfulness constraints and sociolinguistic variation 424
- Sonority scales and syllable structure 447
- Foot, word and phrase constraints in first language acquisition of Spanish stress 470
- Acquistion of syllable structure in Spanish 497
- Constraint conflict in the acquisition of clusters in Spanish 525
- Subject index 549
- Index of constraints 559
