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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820212803321

Titolo

Phonetics and phonology : interactions and interrelations / / edited by Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota, M. João Freitas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009

ISBN

1-282-39552-1

9786612395529

90-272-8900-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 290 p. : ill

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 306

Altri autori (Persone)

VigárioMarina Cláudia

FrotaSonia

FreitasMaria João

Disciplina

414/.8

Soggetti

Phonetics

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Schwa in American English V+/r/ sequences / María Riera, Joaquín Romero & Ben Parrell -- Perception of word stress in Castilian Spanish : the effects of sentence intonation and vowel type / Marta Ortega-Llebaria & Pilar Prieto -- Do complex pitch gestures induce syllable lengthening in Catalan and Spanish? / Pilar Prieto & Marta Ortega-Llebaria -- Cues to contrastive focus in Romanian / Olson Manolescu & Marta Ortega-Llebaria -- The phonetics of sentence-initial topic and focus in adult and child Dutch / Aoju Chen -- Prosodic structure and consonant development across languages / Timothy Arbisi-Kelm & Mary E. Beckman -- Rhythmic and prosodic contrast in Venetan and Sicilian Italian / Laurence White, Elinor Payne & Sven L. Mattys -- Stem boundary and stress effects on syllabification in Spanish / Teresa Cabré & Maria Ohannesian -- Prosodic and segmental effects on vowel intrusion duration in Spanish /R C/ clusters / Benjamin Schmeiser -- Acoustic and aerodynamic factors in the interaction of features : the case of nasality and voicing / Maria Josep Solé -- Fixed and variable properties of the palatalization of dental stops in Brazilian Portuguese



in an Italian immigrant community / Elisa Battisti & Ben Hermans -- Post-tonic vowel harmony in some dialects of central Italy : the role of prosodic structure, contrast, and consonants / Stefano Canalis -- Vowel reduction and vowel harmony in eastern Catalan loanword phonology / Teresa Cabré.

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of this paper is to account for the phonological adaptation of loanwords in Eastern Catalan. As the phonology of these new words deviates from that of the native Catalan vocabulary set (with a certain amount of variation among speakers), the new phonetic features would seem to be borrowed from Spanish. We suggest that a new phonology has emerged whose purpose is to identify loans among the lexicon, the most striking element of this phonology being a harmony effect on stressed mid vowels in the presence of post-tonic [+ATR] mid vowels. The existence of unstressed [+ATR] mid vowels [e, o] in Eastern Catalan has been previously interpreted as lexical exceptions to vowel reduction (Fabra 1912 and Mascaró 2002, among others). However, the phonetic variation in the new lexicon is analyzed here as being fully consistent with Catalan phonology within the theory of lexical strata (Itô & Mester 1999).