Romance linguistics 2010 [[electronic resource] ] : Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Seattle, Washington, March 2010 / / edited by Julia Herschensohn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781958703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-32904-2; 9786613329042; 90-272-8341-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 318
• Altri autori (Persone): HerschensohnJulia Rogers <1945->
• Disciplina: 440
• Soggetti: Romance languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Linguistics.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 3.1 Word-final prevocalic contexts3.2 Word-medial preconsonantal contexts; 3.2.1 Dialect; 3.2.2 Manner-of-articulation and vowel backness; 3.3 Summary; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusions; References; An acoustic study of rhotics in onset clusters in La Rioja; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 2.1 Subjects; 2.2 Stimuli; 2.3 Task; 2.4 Recording; 2.5 Variables and data analysis; 2.6 Hypotheses; 2.7 Statistics; 3. Results; 3.1 Descriptive results; 3.2 Inferential results; 3.2.1 C1 place of articulation; 3.2.2 C1 voicing; 3.2.3 Nuclear vowel; 4. Discussion; 5. Theoretical implications; 6. Conclusion; ReferencesAppendix A.Participant information; Appendix B.Target sentences (token words are in bold); Mid front vowel lowering before rhotics in Ibero-Romance; 1. Introduction; 2. Mid front vowel lowering in Ibero-Romance; 2.1 Data; 2.2 Phonetic grounding; 3. An OT analysis of mid front vowel lowering before rhotics; 4. Theoretical implications; 5. Conclusion; References; Plural formation in galician; 1. Introduction; 2. Data (Real Academia Galega 2003; Carballo Calero 1966; Freixeiro Mato 1998).; 2.1 Codas and coda clusters; 2.2 Plural formation; 2.3 Plurals in Eastern, Central and Southern dialects
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers ; from the 40th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Washington in March 2010. In addition to overviews of Romance linguistics by the editor and by Jurgen Klausenburger in the keynote article, contributions cover a variety of linguistic theoretical topics and a range of Romance languages, including Old and Modern French, Italian, Romanian as well as several dialects of Spanish and Portuguese. A number of papers deal with the morphophonology of Peninsular Spanish languages, agreement ano