Recursive phonological phrasing in Basque

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12220366
AutoresGorka Elordieta (0000-0003-1235-6998, University of the Basque Country, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume32
Fascículo1
Páginas49-78
Data de publicação2015-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhonology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0952-6757 • E-ISSN: 1469-8188
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0952675715000044
OpenAlexW2499824573
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas49

This paper presents data that force a revised account of the distribution of downstep and pitch reset in Lekeitio Basque. In the light of these data, previous analyses of pitch reset in Lekeitio Basque make wrong predictions. On the one hand, pitch reset is predicted where downstep occurs, and on the other, an ordinary reset is predicted where a large reset occurs. The occurrence of downstep and pitch reset, as well as the amount of pitch reset observed, is best accounted for under the assumption that languages possess a hierarchical prosodic structure that roughly matches the surface syntactic structure of a sentence, including levels of embedding or nesting of syntactic constituents. The analysis proposed in this paper is that pitch reset in Lekeitio Basque applies at the left edge of a non-minimal phonological phrase, i.e. a phonological phrase that dominates at least another phonological phrase

Phrase · Reset (finance · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation