The Phonology Of Catalan

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ISBN: 9780199258147 | 0199258147
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Copyright: 11/17/2005

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This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Catalan is a Romance language, occupying a position somewhere between French, Spanish, and Italian. It is the first language of six and a half million people in the northeastern Spain and of the peoples of Andorra,French Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and a small region of Sardinia. Dr Wheeler describes Barcelona pronunciation and the major varieties of western Catalonia, Valencia, and Majorca, and considers social and stylistic variation. The author's approach is through a clear, pragmatic version of orthodox Optimality Theory and is informed by close attention to articulatory phonetics. He includes a substantial account of post-lexical (phrasal) phonology and has designed his approach to be of maximum use to those seeking eitherto understand the phonology and morphology of Catalan and its varieties or to set these within a comparative or typological perspective. After an introduction to the varieties of Catalan the author devotes chapters to segment inventories; syllable structure; phrasal phonology; coda voicing; codaplace; cluster reduction; epenthesis; stress and prosody; word phonology and allomorphy; and the syllabification of pronominal clitics. The book is fully referenced and contains a comprehensive bibliography. It is likely to be the standard account of its subject for many years.

Preface

1 INTRODUCTION

(9)

1.1 The Catalan language: its varieties and standard(s)

(2)

1.2 Theoretical assumptions and framework

(2)

1.3 Outline of contents

(1)

1.4 Guidance notes

(4)

1.4.1 Orthography

(2)

1.4.2 Transcriptions and glosses

(1)

1.4.3 Abbreviations in glosses

(1)

1.4.4 A note on Catalan surnames

(2)

2 PHONOLOGICAL PRIMITIVES AND SEGMENT INVENTORIES

(68)

2.1 Consonant inventory and contrasts

(27)

2.1.1 Plosives

(1)

2.1.2 Affricates

(2)

2.1.3 Fricatives

(11)

2.1.3.1 Labiodental fricative

(1)

2.1.3.2 Alveolo-palatal fricatives

(2)

2.1.3.3 Relation between alveolo-palatal fricatives and affricates

(7)

2.1.3.4 Interpretations of [f]

(1)

2.1.3.5 Dorso-palatal fricative [j]

(1)

2.1.3.6 Varieties without voiced strident phonemes

(1)

2.1.4 Nasals

(1)

2.1.5 Glides (semivowels)

(1)

2.1.6 Rhotics

(10)

2.1.6.1 Distribution of rhotic types

(2)

2.1.6.2 Interpretations of rhotic distribution

(8)

2.1.7 Laterals

(2)

2.1.7.1 Alveolar lateral

(1)

2.1.7.2 Alveolo-palatal lateral

(2)

2.1.8 Place in coronals

(1)

2.1.9 Contrasting geminate consonants

(1)

2.2 Vowel inventory

(15)

2.2.1 Stressed vowel contrasts

(15)

2.2.1.1 Gaps in the distribution of mid front vowels in central Catalan

(3)

2.2.1.2 Mascaro's law

(4)

2.2.1.3 Instability in the lexical incidence of half-close and half-open mid vowels

(7)

2.3 Vowel reduction

(26)

2.3.1 Introduction

(1)

2.3.2 Vowel reduction in western Catalan

(1)

2.3.3 Vowel reduction in Majorcan

(1)

2.3.4 Vowel reduction in eastern Catalan, except Majorcan

(1)

2.3.5 The interpretation of Catalan vowel reduction

(1)

2.3.6 Excluding [&epsilon:, a] from unstressed syllables

(1)

2.3.7 Basic vowel reduction in eastern Catalan

(3)

2.3.8 Basic vowel reduction in Majorcan

(1)

2.3.9 Exceptions to eastern Catalan vowel reduction, 1: *[a' a], *['aa], *[aa]

(4)

2.3.10 Exceptions to eastern Catalan vowel reduction, 2: adjacent mid vowels

(5)

2.3.11 Exceptions to eastern Catalan vowel reduction, 3: post-tonic [e], [o]

(3)

2.3.12 Further non-reduction of unstressed [e] in Majorca

(5)

3 SYLLABLE STRUCTURE

(46)

3.1 Onsets

(10)

3.1.1 Onset-driven resyllabification

(4)

3.2 The syllabification of vocoids

(36)

3.2.1 Introduction

(1)

3.2.2 Default syllabification of high vocoids within words

(2)

3.2.3 High vocoids following other vocoids

(9)

3.2.3.1 Stressed vowel + high vowel hiatus

(1)

3.2.3.2 Hiatus before `underlying' stress

(4)

3.2.3.3 Unstressed vowel followed by unstressed high vocoid

(3)

3.2.4 High vocoids preceding other vocoids

(21)

3.2.4.1 Labio-velar obstruents?

100

(2)

3.2.4.2 Other post-consonantal high vocoids followed by non-high vocoids

102

(1)

3.2.4.3 Vocoid sequences of rising sonority in relation to word stress

103

(2)

3.2.4.4 High vocoid followed by stressed non-high vocoid in initial syllable

105

(4)

3.2.4.5 Word-initial pretonic sequences of rising sonority

109

(1)

3.2.4.6 Initial pre-pretonic sequences of rising sonority

109

(1)

3.2.4.7 Non-initial sequences of rising sonority, with second element stressed

110

(4)

3.2.4.8 Pretonic non-initial sequences of rising sonority

114

(6)

3.2.5 High vocoid sequences

120

(5)

3.2.5.1 Adjacent dissimilar high vocoids

120

(1)

3.2.5.2 Adjacent similar high vocoids

121

(3)

4 PHRASAL PHONOLOGY: VOWEL SANDHI

124

(21)

4.1 Introduction

124

(1)

4.2 Stressed vowel followed by unstressed vowel

125

(7)

4.2.1 Stressed vowel followed by an unstressed high vowel

125

(4)

4.2.2 Stressed vowel followed by an unstressed non-high vowel

129

(3)

4.3 Unstressed vowel followed by stressed vowel

132

(3)

4.4 Contact between unstressed vowels

135

(5)

4.5 Observations on multi-vocoid sequences

140

(4)

4.6 Summary of evidence for constraint rankings for vowel sandhi

144

(1)

5 CODA VOICING NEUTRALIZATION AND ASSIMILATION

145

(21)

5.1 Distribution of voiced and voiceless obstruents

145

(4)

5.2 'Incomplete' neutralization

149

(2)

5.3 Accounting for voicing neutralization and assimilation

151

(6)

5.4 Towards an OT account of voicing neutralization in Catalan

157

(5)

5.5 Word-final sibilants

162

(2)

5.6 Appendix: Steriade's 'P-map' approach to voicing neutralization

164

(2)

6 CODA PLACE AND MANNER ASSIMILATION AND NEUTRALIZATION

166

(54)

6.1 Introduction

166

(2)

6.2 Morpheme-internal coda-C clusters

168

(11)

6.2.1 Heterorganic nasal coda clusters

173

(1)

6.2.2 Heterorganic denti-alveolar-C clusters

173

(1)

6.2.3 Labial-alveolo-palatal cluster

174

(2)

6.2.4 Alveolo-palatal-C clusters

176

(1)

6.2.5 Velar-C clusters

177

(1)

6.2.6 Constraints for formal style

177

(2)

6.3 Nasal and lateral assimilation and associated assimilations in less formal style

179

(1)

6.4 Inter-word coda-C clusters

180

(6)

6.4.1 Inter-word coda-C clusters in less formal styles

183

(2)

6.4.2 Summary of style-reflecting place assimilations in inter-word consonantal contacts

185

(1)

6.4.3 Heterorganic major place inter-word contacts

185

(1)

6.5 Minor place assimilation

186

(21)

6.5.1 Survey of cluster realizations

190

(2)

6.5.2 Denti-alveolar contacts

192

(5)

6.5.3 Alveolo-palatal onsets

197

(4)

6.5.4 High DAC contacts

201

(3)

6.5.5 Conclusions and Summary

204

(3)

6.6 Consonantal contact in Majorcan: place and manner

207

(13)

6.6.1 Labial coda inputs

211

(3)

6.6.2 Alveolar coda inputs

214

(1)

6.6.3 Alveolo-palatal coda inputs

215

(5)

7 CLUSTER REDUCTION

220

(30)

7.1 Introduction

220

(1)

7.2 Cluster reduction in stems

221

(6)

7.3 Cluster reduction in stems with a consonantal suffix

227

(8)

7.4 Cluster reduction in uninflected stems followed by vowel-initial words

235

(2)

7.5 Cluster reduction in uninflected stems followed by consonant-initial words

237

(3)

7.6 Cluster reduction in inflected stems followed by vowel-initial words

240

(4)

7.7 Cluster reduction in inflected stems followed by consonant-initial words

244

(5)

7.8 Summary of constraint rankings relating to word-final clusters

249

(1)

8 EPENTHESIS AND OTHER SONORITY-RELATED PHENOMENA

250

(26)

8.1 Introduction

250

(2)

8.2 Non-edge epenthesis

252

(5)

8.3 Codas and epenthesis

257

(6)

8.4 Sibilants and epenthesis

263

(2)

8.5 Minimum sonority distance and voiced stop gemination

265

(4)

8.6 Balearic verb forms with coda clusters violating the sonority sequencing principle

269

(7)

9 STRESS, FEET, AND PHRASES

276

(34)

9.1 Word stress: introduction

276

(1)

9.2 Unstressed words

277

(2)

9.3 Compounds and complex words

279

(5)

9.3.1 Compounds

279

(3)

9.3.2 Complex words with affixes

282

(2)

9.4 Verb stress

284

(4)

9.5 Prosodic word constraints

288

(9)

9.6 Rhythmic constraints above the word: a provisional account

297

(9)

Appendix: evaluation of alternative foot and colon parses for word types in (29-31)

306

(4)

10 WORD PHONOLOGY AND PHONOLOGICALLY CONDITIONED ALLOMORPHY

310

(31)

10.1 Coda/Onset alternations: lenition

310

(17)

10.1.1 Introduction

310

(2)

10.1.2 Fricatives or approximants

312

(2)

10.1.3 Lenition and the theory of effort

314

(2)

10.1.4 Lenition and the enhancement of contrast

316

(1)

10.1.5 Variation in Catalan lenition

317

(7)

10.1.6 Further interpretation of the hierarchy of leniting contexts in Catalan

324

(2)

10.1.7 Remaining issues

326

(1)

10.2 Consonant/zero alternations

327

(11)

10.2.1 N/zero alternation

327

(6)

10.2.2 R/zero alternation

333

(5)

10.3 Alternations involving stem-final labials

338

(3)

11 THE SYLLABIFICATION OF PRONOMINAL CLITICS

341

(30)

11.1 Introduction

341

(1)

11.2 Single clitics

342

(3)

11.3 Clitic clusters

345

(3)

11.4 Syllabification constraints affecting clitics and clitic clusters

348

(18)

11.4.1 Epenthesis

348

(7)

11.4.2 Deletion of consonants and other issues in the syllabification of pronominal clitics

355

(8)

11.4.3 Non-edge epenthesis in verb-clitic sequences

363

(3)

11.5 Epenthesis in clitic clusters to avoid geminate sibilants

366

(3)

11.6 Summary of constraint ranking

369

(2)

References

371

(11)

Index

382

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