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Saturation of parameter settings in Spanish stress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2006

Iggy Roca
Iggy Roca
Affiliation:
University of Essex
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Abstract

This paper advances a novel analysis of Spanish non-verb stress couched in the metrical model of Halle & Idsardi (1995), minimally augmented with an Edge Marking domain parameter. All relevant data are surveyed, and the patterns are classified on empirical grounds into unmarked, marked and supermarked. The unmarked pattern, assigned by default, has the stem-final syllable stressed, while the marked pattern involves a binary trochee, also on the right edge of the stem, and supermarked stress a non-final binary trochee or a word Edge Marking domain. All and only these patterns are generated, in both singulars and plurals, through permutations in the settings of three of the four Edge Marking components (domain included), checked by an avoidance constraint barring stress from the desinence. The ‘three-syllable window’ directly falls out from this machinery, both in the established Spanish vocabulary and in incoming borrowings, blind mimicry of the source form thus being obviated, indeed contradicted.

Type
Research Article
Information
Phonology , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , December 2005 , pp. 345 - 394
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Earlier drafts benefited from general feedback from Harry van der Hulst, advice on specific points from Bill Idsardi and attention and interaction from members of the audience of a presentation I gave at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Discussion with Antonio Fábregas deepened my understanding of the mechanics of Distributed Morphology. Anonymous reviewers, an associate editor and the editors further contributed with criticism and questions. To all of them, my thanks. Remaining errors are of course my own.