Word-profiling strategies in Central Catalan, Itunyoso Trique, and Turkish
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Javier Caro Reina
Abstract
This article investigates the patterns of syllable structure and phonotactic restrictions in three genetically unrelated languages in an attempt to identify the interaction of the strategies employed cross-linguistically to profile phonological words. The languages selected are Central Catalan, Itunyoso Trique, and Turkish. In these languages, the phonological word is the central prosodic category since syllable structure and phonotactic restrictions are sensitive to stress and within-word position. It will be shown that according to the patterns of these diagnostic criteria we can distinguish between stress-sensitive, distribution- sensitive, and harmonic words. The features of these different word types will be discussed within the framework of the typology of syllable and word languages.
Abstract
This article investigates the patterns of syllable structure and phonotactic restrictions in three genetically unrelated languages in an attempt to identify the interaction of the strategies employed cross-linguistically to profile phonological words. The languages selected are Central Catalan, Itunyoso Trique, and Turkish. In these languages, the phonological word is the central prosodic category since syllable structure and phonotactic restrictions are sensitive to stress and within-word position. It will be shown that according to the patterns of these diagnostic criteria we can distinguish between stress-sensitive, distribution- sensitive, and harmonic words. The features of these different word types will be discussed within the framework of the typology of syllable and word languages.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- The word in phonology: questions and answers 1
- The phonological word in German – Insights from an acoustic-phonetic study of complex words 13
- (Non-)separation of words in early medieval Irish and German manuscripts and the concept “word” 45
- Word-profiling strategies in Central Catalan, Itunyoso Trique, and Turkish 71
- The morphology-prosody interface in typically developing and language-impaired populations 95
- Schwa optionality and the prosodic shape of words and phrases 121
- Phonotactic principles and exposure in second language processing 153
- The interaction of vowel quantity and tonal cues in cognitive processing: An MMNstudy concerning dialectal and standard varieties 183
- The role of phonological structure in speech segmentation by infants and adults: a review and methodological considerations 213
- Neural bases of phonological representations: Empirical approaches and methods 241
- Index 273
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- The word in phonology: questions and answers 1
- The phonological word in German – Insights from an acoustic-phonetic study of complex words 13
- (Non-)separation of words in early medieval Irish and German manuscripts and the concept “word” 45
- Word-profiling strategies in Central Catalan, Itunyoso Trique, and Turkish 71
- The morphology-prosody interface in typically developing and language-impaired populations 95
- Schwa optionality and the prosodic shape of words and phrases 121
- Phonotactic principles and exposure in second language processing 153
- The interaction of vowel quantity and tonal cues in cognitive processing: An MMNstudy concerning dialectal and standard varieties 183
- The role of phonological structure in speech segmentation by infants and adults: a review and methodological considerations 213
- Neural bases of phonological representations: Empirical approaches and methods 241
- Index 273
