Francesc Torres-Tamarit
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 822412 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Francesc Torres-Tamarit |
| NOMBRES | Francesc |
| APELLIDO | Torres-Tamarit |
| FIRMA | TORRES-TAMARIT F |
| AFILIACIONES | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3646-7545 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Modularity, Cyclicity, and Constrained Nonuniformity in Spanish Stress Assignment
We develop a stratal analysis of Spanish stress in which morphosyntactic conditioning and metrical nonuniformity are tightly constrained. Morphosyntactic conditioning is limited to cyclicity, the distinction between stems and affixes, and the affiliation of affixes to the stem or word level. Nonuniformity arises from lexical prespecification and interstratal constraint reranking. This framework yields several successful empirical predictions: Ric…
Velar palatalization, phonologization, and sound change - A comparative acoustic study of /k/-fronting in Majorcan Catalan
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds
In Modern Hebrew, some, but not all, nominals exhibit obligatory /a/-syncope in open syllables if they are antepretonic in a simple (nominal) word. The same vowels optionally syncopate in any pretonic syllable in non-final members of compounds. Here we first show that syncope in compounds fills a gap in the typology of weak positions. We then propose a formal analysis in Gradient Harmonic Grammar (Smolensky and Goldrick 2016), which distinguishes…
The prosody of Spanish acronyms
This paper presents a first attempt to formally characterize the prosodic properties of Spanish acronyms. Based on the examination of a dataset and the results of a written questionnaire and perception test administered to native speakers, the stress patterns and prosodic size of Spanish acronyms are investigated. We show that stress in acronyms follows the regular stress patterns of the language. We further claim that acronyms are restricted to …
Prosodically-driven morpheme non-realization in the Minorcan Catalan DP
This article focuses on a case of prosodically-driven morpheme non-realization found in the Minorcan Catalan DP that has not been documented or accounted for in the previous literature. In this variety of Catalan, kinship restrictive appositive phrases show the realization of the masculine personal article if the following personal name starts with a consonant ( es conco en Toni , the -def.art.m uncle the -pers.art.m Toni ‘uncle Toni’), but not i…
Stress-dependent harmony in Asturian and harmony in situ
In many cases of stress-dependent harmony the trigger is associated with a morpheme. We examine two instances of morphemic harmony where the triggering morpheme is mixed, that is, it consists of segmental material and floating features. The floating features cause stepwise raising of the stressed vowel, /a/ → [e], and /e/ → [i], /o/ → [u]. We examine in particular Felechosa Asturian, where the triggering masculine singular count morpheme usually …
Vowel length in Friulian verbs
Hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian
This article focuses on hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian. Besides disyllabic truncation, hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian also yields trisyllabic truncated forms by means of a process of reduplicative prefixation (e.g.,Totore ← Servatore) and, more interestingly, a process of copy of what is analyzed as an internally layered ternary foot (e.g.,(Va(tore)) ← Servatore). In this paper we develop an OT analysis of hypocoristic truncation base…
Trisyllabic hypocoristics in Spanish and layered feet
Enclitic-induced stress shift in Catalan
In this paper we provide a novel and unified formal analysis of the stress microvariation found in verb–enclitic groupings in Barcelona Catalan, with stress stability, in Formentera Catalan, with stress shift to the penultimate and the last syllable of the whole sequence, and in Mallorca and Menorca Catalan, with stress shift to the last syllable. We argue that stress shift in Formentera Catalan conforms directly to the unmarked pattern of nomina…
Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony
Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy
Onset Weight with Branchingness Constraints
In this paper we develop an analysis of onset-driven stress in Pirahã based on the idea that onsets can be parsed under the vocalic mora (Hyman type) or adjoin to the syllable node (Hayes type) depending on their sonority. We propose a set of constraints standing in stringency relations that prohibit branching structures in metrical dependent positions to account for the fact that syllables with voiceless onsets in Pirahã are the best stress attr…
Length and voicing in Friulian and Milanese
Servigliano revisited
This paper examines a metaphonic chain shift in Servigliano (Italo-Romance), in which /ɛ, ɔ/ raise to [e, o] and /e, o/ raise to [i, u] when stressed and followed by inflectional /i, u/. The paper also explores pre-tonic metaphony, whereby /ɛ, ɔ/ raise all the way up to [i, u] when followed by a stressed high vowel. First, an analysis of the data is developed using Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC), taking as a starting point the pa…
Lapsed Derivations
Ternary stress presents a unique challenge to constraint-based metrical stress theories. The main question is how to model ternarity without ternary-specific representations, such as ternary feet.1 Along this line of reasoning, Elenbaas and Kager (1999) interpret ternarity as an underparsing effect in which long lapses are avoided while the number of feet is kept to a minimum. The standard constraint that prohibits long lapses is *LAPSE (1). This…
Ternary Constituents Are a Consequence of Mora Sluicing
While ternary rhythm exists, ternary feet do not, not even indirectly by means of recursion. We propose that ternary rhythm arises from mora sluicing, the phenomenon whereby moras can be excluded from the stress plane to satisfy an instance of NO-CLASH in a model that conceives metrical prominences as headed constituents. We demonstrate that the notion of mora sluicing has high explanatory power: it is necessary on independent grounds to explain …
Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty
Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by prosodic means in a variety of languages (Armstrong, 2010, for Puerto Rican Spanish; Grice & Savino, 1997, for Bari Italian; Kügler, 2003, for Leipzig German; Mata & Santos, 2010, for European Portuguese; Vanrell, Mascaró, Prieto, & Torres-Tamarit, 2010, for Catalan). However, all these st…
Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty
Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by prosodic means in a variety of languages (Armstrong, 2010, for Puerto Rican Spanish; Grice & Savino, 1997, for Bari Italian; Kügler, 2003, for Leipzig German; Mata & Santos, 2010, for European Portuguese; Vanrell, Mascaró, Prieto, & Torres-Tamarit, 2010, for Catalan). However, all these st…
Hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian
This article focuses on hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian. Besides disyllabic truncation, hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian also yields trisyllabic truncated forms by means of a process of reduplicative prefixation (e.g.,Totore ← Servatore) and, more interestingly, a process of copy of what is analyzed as an internally layered ternary foot (e.g.,(Va(tore)) ← Servatore). In this paper we develop an OT analysis of hypocoristic truncation base…
Trisyllabic hypocoristics in Spanish and layered feet
Velar palatalization, phonologization, and sound change - A comparative acoustic study of /k/-fronting in Majorcan Catalan
The prosody of Spanish acronyms
This paper presents a first attempt to formally characterize the prosodic properties of Spanish acronyms. Based on the examination of a dataset and the results of a written questionnaire and perception test administered to native speakers, the stress patterns and prosodic size of Spanish acronyms are investigated. We show that stress in acronyms follows the regular stress patterns of the language. We further claim that acronyms are restricted to …
Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony
Length and voicing in Friulian and Milanese
Servigliano revisited
This paper examines a metaphonic chain shift in Servigliano (Italo-Romance), in which /ɛ, ɔ/ raise to [e, o] and /e, o/ raise to [i, u] when stressed and followed by inflectional /i, u/. The paper also explores pre-tonic metaphony, whereby /ɛ, ɔ/ raise all the way up to [i, u] when followed by a stressed high vowel. First, an analysis of the data is developed using Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC), taking as a starting point the pa…
Lapsed Derivations
Ternary stress presents a unique challenge to constraint-based metrical stress theories. The main question is how to model ternarity without ternary-specific representations, such as ternary feet.1 Along this line of reasoning, Elenbaas and Kager (1999) interpret ternarity as an underparsing effect in which long lapses are avoided while the number of feet is kept to a minimum. The standard constraint that prohibits long lapses is *LAPSE (1). This…
Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty
Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by prosodic means in a variety of languages (Armstrong, 2010, for Puerto Rican Spanish; Grice & Savino, 1997, for Bari Italian; Kügler, 2003, for Leipzig German; Mata & Santos, 2010, for European Portuguese; Vanrell, Mascaró, Prieto, & Torres-Tamarit, 2010, for Catalan). However, all these st…
Ternary Constituents Are a Consequence of Mora Sluicing
While ternary rhythm exists, ternary feet do not, not even indirectly by means of recursion. We propose that ternary rhythm arises from mora sluicing, the phenomenon whereby moras can be excluded from the stress plane to satisfy an instance of NO-CLASH in a model that conceives metrical prominences as headed constituents. We demonstrate that the notion of mora sluicing has high explanatory power: it is necessary on independent grounds to explain …
Length and voicing in Friulian and Milanese
Servigliano revisited
This paper examines a metaphonic chain shift in Servigliano (Italo-Romance), in which /ɛ, ɔ/ raise to [e, o] and /e, o/ raise to [i, u] when stressed and followed by inflectional /i, u/. The paper also explores pre-tonic metaphony, whereby /ɛ, ɔ/ raise all the way up to [i, u] when followed by a stressed high vowel. First, an analysis of the data is developed using Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC), taking as a starting point the pa…
Lapsed Derivations
Ternary stress presents a unique challenge to constraint-based metrical stress theories. The main question is how to model ternarity without ternary-specific representations, such as ternary feet.1 Along this line of reasoning, Elenbaas and Kager (1999) interpret ternarity as an underparsing effect in which long lapses are avoided while the number of feet is kept to a minimum. The standard constraint that prohibits long lapses is *LAPSE (1). This…
Approaches to Metaphony in the Languages of Italy
Onset Weight with Branchingness Constraints
In this paper we develop an analysis of onset-driven stress in Pirahã based on the idea that onsets can be parsed under the vocalic mora (Hyman type) or adjoin to the syllable node (Hayes type) depending on their sonority. We propose a set of constraints standing in stringency relations that prohibit branching structures in metrical dependent positions to account for the fact that syllables with voiceless onsets in Pirahã are the best stress attr…
Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony
Enclitic-induced stress shift in Catalan
In this paper we provide a novel and unified formal analysis of the stress microvariation found in verb–enclitic groupings in Barcelona Catalan, with stress stability, in Formentera Catalan, with stress shift to the penultimate and the last syllable of the whole sequence, and in Mallorca and Menorca Catalan, with stress shift to the last syllable. We argue that stress shift in Formentera Catalan conforms directly to the unmarked pattern of nomina…
Trisyllabic hypocoristics in Spanish and layered feet
Hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian
This article focuses on hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian. Besides disyllabic truncation, hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian also yields trisyllabic truncated forms by means of a process of reduplicative prefixation (e.g.,Totore ← Servatore) and, more interestingly, a process of copy of what is analyzed as an internally layered ternary foot (e.g.,(Va(tore)) ← Servatore). In this paper we develop an OT analysis of hypocoristic truncation base…
Stress-dependent harmony in Asturian and harmony in situ
In many cases of stress-dependent harmony the trigger is associated with a morpheme. We examine two instances of morphemic harmony where the triggering morpheme is mixed, that is, it consists of segmental material and floating features. The floating features cause stepwise raising of the stressed vowel, /a/ → [e], and /e/ → [i], /o/ → [u]. We examine in particular Felechosa Asturian, where the triggering masculine singular count morpheme usually …
Vowel length in Friulian verbs
Prosodically-driven morpheme non-realization in the Minorcan Catalan DP
This article focuses on a case of prosodically-driven morpheme non-realization found in the Minorcan Catalan DP that has not been documented or accounted for in the previous literature. In this variety of Catalan, kinship restrictive appositive phrases show the realization of the masculine personal article if the following personal name starts with a consonant ( es conco en Toni , the -def.art.m uncle the -pers.art.m Toni ‘uncle Toni’), but not i…
Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds
In Modern Hebrew, some, but not all, nominals exhibit obligatory /a/-syncope in open syllables if they are antepretonic in a simple (nominal) word. The same vowels optionally syncopate in any pretonic syllable in non-final members of compounds. Here we first show that syncope in compounds fills a gap in the typology of weak positions. We then propose a formal analysis in Gradient Harmonic Grammar (Smolensky and Goldrick 2016), which distinguishes…
The prosody of Spanish acronyms
This paper presents a first attempt to formally characterize the prosodic properties of Spanish acronyms. Based on the examination of a dataset and the results of a written questionnaire and perception test administered to native speakers, the stress patterns and prosodic size of Spanish acronyms are investigated. We show that stress in acronyms follows the regular stress patterns of the language. We further claim that acronyms are restricted to …
Velar palatalization, phonologization, and sound change - A comparative acoustic study of /k/-fronting in Majorcan Catalan
Modularity, Cyclicity, and Constrained Nonuniformity in Spanish Stress Assignment
We develop a stratal analysis of Spanish stress in which morphosyntactic conditioning and metrical nonuniformity are tightly constrained. Morphosyntactic conditioning is limited to cyclicity, the distinction between stems and affixes, and the affiliation of affixes to the stem or word level. Nonuniformity arises from lexical prespecification and interstratal constraint reranking. This framework yields several successful empirical predictions: Ric…
Linguistics (16 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (16 obras) · Computer Science (14 obras) · Mathematics (14 obras) · Philosophy (14 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 obras) · Physics (6 obras) · Syllable (6 obras) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (5 obras)