Pilar Prieto | Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
This paper provides a close examination of how Spanish speakers syllabify sequences of vocoids of rising sonority within the lexicon (e.g., piano ‘piano’, persiana ‘blind’ or historia ‘history’). A survey with 246 words administered to 15 Peninsular Spanish speakers has enabled us to examine in a quantitative way the strength of prosodic and morphological conditions on the appearance of the so-called exceptional hiatuses (Navarro Tomás 1948; Hualde 1999, 2005; Colina 1999). The data in our study reveals that the word initiality effect is not as strong as stated in the literature and that there are large differences between speakers: within the same dialect, half of the informants have the word-initiality effect in words such as piano ‘piano’ or diálogo ‘dialogue’, while the rest have practically generalized the presence of a diphthong in this position. Interestingly, morpheme boundary effects are found in conservative speakers and their conditions differ depending on the paradigm: (a) in nominal forms, gliding is blocked when there is an intervening morpheme boundary and when the glide is a high back vowel (virt[u.Áo]so ‘virtuous’ vs. od[Ájo]so ‘hateful’, act[u.Áa]l ‘present’ vs. cord[Ája]l ‘cordial’); (b) in verbal paradigms, gliding is blocked when there is an intervening morpheme boundary and when the high vowel can be stressed in some form of the paradigm (conf[i.Áa]r ‘to trust’, confío ‘I trust’ vs. camb[Ája]r ‘to change’, cambio ‘I change’). In general, the situation indicates that language change is in progress and that, for some speakers, the presence of lexical items that are pronounced with a hiatus is gradually disappearing. The article presents an analysis in terms of a correspondence-based OT analysis which captures the prosodic and analogical forces governing this process together with the interspeaker variation found in the data.
2019. Formant dynamics of Spanish vocalic sequences in related speakers: A forensic-voice-comparison investigation. Journal of Phonetics 75 ► pp. 1 ff.
Kager, René & Violeta Martínez-Paricio
2018. The internally layered foot in Dutch. Linguistics 56:1 ► pp. 69 ff.
2016. A variationist account of voice onset time (VOT) among bilingual West Indians in Panama. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 9:1 ► pp. 113 ff.
Garrido, Marisol
2013. Hiatus Resolution in Spanish: Motivating Forces, Constraining Factors, and Research Methods. Language and Linguistics Compass 7:6 ► pp. 339 ff.
Cardoso, Walcir
2011. The development of coda perception in second language phonology: A variationist perspective. Second Language Research 27:4 ► pp. 433 ff.
Chitoran, Ioana & José Ignacio Hualde
2007. From hiatus to diphthong: the evolution of vowel sequences in Romance. Phonology 24:1 ► pp. 37 ff.
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