Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today, Volume 99)

This Outstanding Volume Offers The First Comprehensive Collection Of Optimality-theoretic Studies In Spanish Phonology. Bringing Together Most Of The Best-known Researchers In The Field, It Presents A State-of-the-art Overview Of Research In Spanish Phonology Within The Non-derivational Framework Of Optimality Theory. The Book Is Structured Around Six Major Areas Of Phonological Research: Phonetics–phonology Interface, Segmental Phonology, Syllable Structure And Stress, Morphophonology, Language Variation And Change, And Language Acquisition, Including General As Well As More Specialized Articles. The Reader Is Guided Through The Volume With The Help Of The Introduction And A Detailed Index. The Book Will Serve As Core Reading For Advanced Graduate-level Phonology Courses And Seminars In Spanish Linguistics, And In General Linguistics Phonology Courses. It Will Also Constitute An Essential Reference For Researchers In Phonology, Phonological Theory, And Spanish, And Related Areas, Such As Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Education, And Speech And Hearing Science. Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Table of contents......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 1. Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics–phonology interface......Page 24 2. Phonological phrasing in Spanish......Page 48 1. Hiatus resolution and incomplete identity......Page 71 2. Depalatalization in Spanish revisited......Page 83 3. Upstepping vowel height......Page 108 4. The phonology of nasal consonants in five Spanish dialects......Page 155 1. Optimality-theoretic advances in our understanding of Spanish syllable structure......Page 181 2. Exceptional hiatuses in Spanish......Page 214 3. The Spanish stress window......Page 248 1. Morphological structure and phonologicaldomains in Spanish denominal derivation......Page 287 2. Gender allomorphy and epenthesisin Spanish......Page 321 3. A paradigm account of Spanish number......Page 348 4. Prefix boundaries in Spanish varieties......Page 367 1. Optimality Theory and language changein Spanish......Page 387 2. Duration, voice, and dispersion in stop contrasts from Latin to Spanish......Page 408 3. The interaction between faithfulness constraints and sociolinguistic variation......Page 433 4. Sonority scales and syllable structure......Page 456 1. Foot, word and phrase constraints in first language acquisition of Spanish stress......Page 479 2. Acquistion of syllable structure in Spanish......Page 506 3. Constraint conflict in the acquisition of clusters in Spanish......Page 534 Subject index......Page 558 Index of constraints......Page 568 The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 570 Edited By Fernando Martínez-gil, Sonia Colina. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.