Servigliano revisited
An examination from constraint-based serialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10139381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesc Torres-Tamarit (0000-0003-3646-7545, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 689-708 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022226715000092 |
| OpenAlex | W1912676542 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
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 parallel OT analysis developed in Mascaró (2011). Second, it is shown that OT-CC causes one analytical problem and no gain in terms of economy. On the one hand, the metaphony-triggering constraint Agree (+high,+ATR) proposed in Mascaró (2011) needs to be split into two different constraints, one of which needs a more complicated formulation that requires a conditional clause. On the other hand, positional faithfulness is needed, as in the parallel OT analysis by Mascaró (2011b), to explain the asymmetry between one-step metaphony and fell-swoop pre-tonic metaphony; OT-CC provides no inherent advantage in explaining this asymmetry
Asymmetry · Constraint (computer-aided design · Econometrics · Linguistics · Mathematical economics · Optimality theory · Phonology · Physics · Tonic (physiology · Computer Science · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |