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Spanish Phonology and Morphology

A Generative View

By: William W. Cressey

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Spanish Phonology and Morphology serves as an introduction to both the formal study of Spanish phonology and the framework of generative phonology.

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Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Preliminary questions concerning the research program	p. 1
The object of analysis	p. 1
Research procedures and evidence	p. 3
Theoretical basis for the analysis	p. 4
Assumptions concerning the nature of language	p. 5
Rule-governed creativity	p. 5
Infinite use of finite means	p. 5
The goals of linguistic research	p. 6
Analysis of particular languages	p. 6
Analysis of the phenomenon of language in general	p. 6
Evaluation of linguistic analyses	p. 7
Observational adequacy	p. 7
Descriptive adequacy	p. 7
Explanatory adequacy	p. 7
The organization of a generative grammar	p. 8
Distinctive Feature Classification of the Sounds of Spanish	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
Phonetic description in a generative grammar	p. 11
Systematic phonetic representations	p. 11
Distinctive features as the basic units of phonetic description	p. 13
Narrow versus broad phonetic representations	p. 15
The set of distinctive features used in this study and their application to Spanish	p. 16
The major classes	p. 17
Features which define the major classes	p. 17
Syllabic [syl]	p. 17
Consonantal [cns]	p. 18
Sonorant [son]	p. 18
Definition of spontaneous voicing	p. 18
Application of the major class features to Spanish	p. 19
The classification of vowels	p. 19
The neutral position	p. 20
Features which define departures from the neutral position	p. 20
High [high]	p. 20
Low [low]	p. 20
Back [back]	p. 21
Round [rnd]	p. 21
Vowel variants	p. 21
Lowered mid and high vowels	p. 22
Palatalized and velarized low vowels	p. 24
Relaxed vowels	p. 25
The classification of glides	p. 26
On-glides versus off-glides	p. 26
Nonhigh glides	p. 27
The classification of obstruents	p. 28
Point of articulation	p. 28
The vowel features as applied to consonants	p. 28
Additional features for point of articulation	p. 29
Anterior [ant]	p. 29
Coronal [cor]	p. 30
Dental [den]	p. 30
Dental versus interdental sounds	p. 32
The points of articulation as classified by the features	p. 33
Manner of articulation	p. 33
Features which define manner of articulation	p. 33
Occlusive [ocl]	p. 34
Instantaneous release [ins]	p. 34
Tense [tns]	p. 34
Voiced [+ voi]	p. 35
A note on stridency	p. 36
The classification of sonorant consonants	p. 37
Additional features which define manner of articulation among sonorant consonants	p. 37
Nasal [nas]	p. 37
Lateral [lat]	p. 38
Application of previously defined features to the sonorant consonants	p. 38
Elimination of interdentals	p. 38
Palato-alveolar versus palatal	p. 39
The feature [occlusive] as applied to sonorant consonants	p. 39
Matrix of sounds of Spanish as classified by features at the broad phonetic level	p. 39
Principles of Phonological Analysis	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
Central questions of phonological research	p. 43
The phoneme	p. 44
Systematic phonemic representations	p. 45
The format of a phonological rule	p. 47
Abbreviatory devices	p. 49
The order of application of phonological rules	p. 50
Evaluation and comparison of phonemic analyses	p. 51
The simplicity metric	p. 53
Application of the simplicity metric to Analyses (1), (2) and (3)	p. 54
The subcomponents of a generative phonology	p. 55
A variable theory of the abstractness of lexical representations	p. 56
The Systematic Phonemes of Spanish	p. 58
Introduction	p. 58
Variation	p. 59
Nasal and lateral assimilation	p. 61
Nasal assimilation	p. 61
Nasal assimilation and the taxonomic phonemic level	p. 62
The need for a formal equivalent of the term 'homorganic'	p. 63
Lateral assimilation	p. 65
Evidence in favor of the definition of the feature [occlusive] presented in Section 1.2.4.2.1.1	p. 65
Formulation of a combined assimilation rule for nasals and laterals	p. 66
An extension of the linking use of Marking Conventions as a constraint on assimilation of laterals	p. 66
Lax stops and fricatives	p. 67
The use of features rather than segments as the basic unit of analysis	p. 68
The distinctive features of lax obstruents	p. 70
Specifying the environment of the rule: Formal difficulties	p. 72
The use of the alpha notation as a formal equivalent for 'except'	p. 72
An additional use of the [[alpha] PA] notation	p. 73
Additional support for the definition of the feature [occlusive] given in Section 1.2.4.2.1.1	p. 73
Obstruent voicing assimilation	p. 74
Lax vowels	p. 75
Glides	p. 75
The phonemic representation of glides	p. 76
The traditional analysis	p. 76
Bowen and Stockwell versus Saporta	p. 76
Alarcos and Harris	p. 76
Two phonemic representations for Spanish glides	p. 77
Glide phonemes	p. 77
Harris' argument in favor of glide phonemes	p. 77
The representation of glide phonemes in the lexicon	p. 78
Phonetic glides derived from vowel phonemes	p. 79
Glide Formation Rules	p. 81
An Everywhere Rule	p. 81
A Variable Rule	p. 81
Spirantization of glides	p. 82
Conclusion	p. 82
Word-Level Phonology	p. 84
Introduction	p. 84
Linguistic units and boundaries which affect the application of phonological rules	p. 84
The syllable	p. 85
The morpheme	p. 85
The root	p. 85
The word	p. 86
The problem of abstractness	p. 86
Factors which contribute to abstractness	p. 87
Great differences between phonetic representations and proposed underlying forms	p. 87
Neutralization	p. 87
The use of boundaries in phonological rules	p. 88
The use of nonphonetic features in phonological rules	p. 88
Evaluation of abstract analyses	p. 88
A set of interrelated Word-level Phonology Rules	p. 89
A brief statement of the rules	p. 89
Stress Assignment in lexical categories other than verbs	p. 89
Velar Softening	p. 89
Palatalization	p. 90
Final -e Deletion	p. 90
Diphthongization	p. 91
Lenition	p. 91
Relationships among the rules	p. 91
The relationship between synchronic and diachronic linguistics	p. 92
Sound changes and rules of phonology	p. 92
The relationship between sound changes and synchronic rules	p. 92
From the perspective of the speaker	p. 92
From the perspective of the linguist	p. 93
The concept of independent motivation	p. 94
Independent motivation of a rule	p. 94
Independent motivation of an underlying form	p. 95
Plural Formation	p. 95
Stress Assignment	p. 96
Velar Softening	p. 96
Conclusion	p. 96
Stress Assignment and the phenomenon of partial predictability	p. 96
Traditional description of Spanish stress	p. 96
The American structuralist treatment of Spanish stress	p. 97
Generative treatment of Spanish stress	p. 97
Stress patterns in surface forms	p. 97
Elimination of final stress in underlying forms	p. 97
Elimination of stress four syllables from the end of underlying forms	p. 97
Penultimate versus antepenultimate stress	p. 98
Why stress cannot be marked directly in the lexicon	p. 98
An abstract feature for the analysis of stress	p. 98
The nature of the feature involved in Stress Assignment	p. 99
Stress Assignment and Diphthongization	p. 99
Conclusions	p. 100
Diphthongization	p. 100
Diphthongization and Glide Formation	p. 101
Diphthongization and Spirantization	p. 101
Velar Softening, Palatalization, and the basic units of analysis	p. 101
Feature-oriented versus segment-oriented rules	p. 102
Feature-oriented analyses of Velar Softening and Palatalization	p. 102
Motivation for the feature-oriented analyses	p. 103
Segment-oriented analyses of Velar Softening and Palatalization	p. 104
Application of the feature-oriented versus segment-oriented distinction to other Word-level Phonology Rules	p. 105
The formalism of segment-oriented rules	p. 105
Conclusions	p. 106
Everywhere Rules	p. 108
Introduction	p. 108
The theory of markedness	p. 108
Language-particular Redundancy Rules	p. 109
The operation of Everywhere Rules	p. 110
Subclassification of Everywhere Rules	p. 111
Universal versus language-particular rules	p. 111
Relative versus absolute	p. 111
Segment-structure versus sequence-structure	p. 112
The domain of Everywhere Rules	p. 112
A set of Everywhere Rules for Spanish	p. 112
Everywhere Rules which apply to consonants	p. 113
Everywhere Rules which apply to all nonconsonantal segments	p. 115
Everywhere Rules which apply to sonorant consonants	p. 118
Additional Everywhere Rules which apply to place and manner of articulation features	p. 120
Everywhere Rules and the representations of the phonemes of Spanish	p. 123
Conclusion	p. 127
Inflectional Morphology	p. 128
Introduction	p. 128
American structuralist separation of morphology from phonemics	p. 128
Morphology in generative grammar	p. 129
Inflectional versus derivational morphology	p. 130
Morphological rules versus phonological rules	p. 130
Inflection of nouns and adjectives	p. 131
Inflection of Spanish verbs	p. 134
Harris' analyses of regular verb forms other than preterite	p. 134
The inflectional morphemes of verb forms as generated by the Spellout Rules	p. 134
Modifications of the inflectional morphemes	p. 136
Theme Vowel Deletion	p. 136
Lowering of i to e	p. 136
Lenition	p. 136
Past Raising	p. 137
The 'imperfect' morpheme	p. 137
Allomorphs of the vosotros ending	p. 137
The Spanish preterite tense	p. 138
The phonetic forms	p. 139
William Bull	p. 139
Stockwell, Bowen, and Martin	p. 140
James Harris	p. 141
Analysis of some irregular verb forms	p. 142
Athematic past participles	p. 144
Athematic future tense forms	p. 145
Athematic preterite forms	p. 146
Athematicity of decir and hacer	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 149
Description of the Principal Sounds of Spanish in Terms of the IPA Classification System	p. 152
References	p. 161
Index	p. 165
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