Maria-Rosa Lloret

List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria-Rosa Lloret plays a role.

Articles

Jiménez, Jesús and Maria-Rosa Lloret 2013 Vocalic adjustments under positional markedness in Catalan and other Romance languagesInformation Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.), pp. 319–336 | Article
While in a wide range of phonological theories preservation under prominence is a well noticed effect, there are few explanations for the accumulation of prominent properties in a particular position. Both tendencies, however, as well as their interaction, are particularly suited to formal… read more
The goal of this paper is to show that there is a principled way of capturing structural (i.e., qualitative) differences between dialects within a quantitative approach and that the result of applying such methodology to dialect grouping is more accurate than the one obtained on purely qualitative… read more
Lloret, Maria-Rosa and Joan Mascaró 2006 Depalatalization in Spanish revisitedOptimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 74–98 | Article
A well-known fact of the phonology of Spanish is the non-occurrence of palatal nasals and laterals in syllable-final position (e.g., desdén-desdeñar, clavel-clavellina). Some scholars have recently claimed that they are lexical remnants that should be treated in terms of allomorphy (cf. Pensado… read more
Lloret, Maria-Rosa 2005 Revising the Phonological Motivation for Splitting the MorphologyMorphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer (eds.), pp. 215–231 | Article
Lloret, Maria-Rosa 1997 When does Variability become Relevant to Formal Linguistic Theory?Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory, Hinskens, Frans L., Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 181–206 | Article
Lloret, Maria-Rosa 1994 Implosive Consonants: Their representation and sound change effectsSound Change, Dominicy, Marc and Didier Demolin (eds.), pp. 59–72 | Article
Abstract. Oromo, a Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya, shows certain phonologically irregular phenomena with respect to the coronal implosive consonant that have never been explained satisfactorily. First, in some dialects, roots ending in a short /d/ behave like final-/?/ roots while… read more