| ROA: | 308 |
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| Title: | Foot-sensitive word-minimization in Spanish |
| Authors: | Carlos-Eduardo Pineros |
| Comment: | 44 pp. Requires SIL IPA fonts |
| Length: | 44 |
| Abstract: | Foot-sensitive word-minimization in Spanish Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros University of Iowa This paper presents empirical evidence in support of prosodic-head correspondence constraints (Alderete 1995), output-to-output correspondence (McCarthy and Prince 1995, Benua 1995, Kenstowicz 1994) and word-minimization as a case of Emergence of the Unmarked (McCarthy and Prince 1994, Benua 1995). I focus on a Spanish truncation process that favors the preservation of the head of the PWd of the Source Form (SF), the main-stressed foot. The emerging Truncated Form (TF) is equivalent to a MinWd that consists of a single foot, which may be built on a syllabic trochee or a single heavy syllable. Markedness constraints outrank (SF-TF)-Identity constraints causing TETU effects that are reflected both prosodically and segmentally. I claim that since the generation of TF depends on the prosodic structure of SF, the input for this truncation process must be a derived output form as opposed to an abstract input form. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |