The phonology of nasal consonants in five Spanish dialects
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Carlos Eduardo Piñeros
Abstract
The processes of nasal place assimilation, neutralization, velarization and absorption are analyzed in terms of three independent markedness constraints: Agree(Place), Place Hierarchy, and Align-C(Nasal), which despite being concerned with different aspects of the structure of output forms, conspire to undermine the place features of nasal consonants in the syllable coda. Data from five different Spanish dialects support the view that coronal is the unmarked place for consonants, and that the tendency of syllable-final nasals to become velar is not a consequence of assigning them an unmarked place articulator but of assimilating them to the preceding vowel. From this standpoint, velarization is only an intermediate step in a larger-scale process, whereby the nasal consonant is incorporated into the structure of the nuclear segment for the sake of segment-to-syllable alignment.
Abstract
The processes of nasal place assimilation, neutralization, velarization and absorption are analyzed in terms of three independent markedness constraints: Agree(Place), Place Hierarchy, and Align-C(Nasal), which despite being concerned with different aspects of the structure of output forms, conspire to undermine the place features of nasal consonants in the syllable coda. Data from five different Spanish dialects support the view that coronal is the unmarked place for consonants, and that the tendency of syllable-final nasals to become velar is not a consequence of assigning them an unmarked place articulator but of assimilating them to the preceding vowel. From this standpoint, velarization is only an intermediate step in a larger-scale process, whereby the nasal consonant is incorporated into the structure of the nuclear segment for the sake of segment-to-syllable alignment.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
