A fresh look at quantity sensitivity in Spanish

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5019488
AutoresZsuzsanna Bárkányi (0000-0002-8899-6759, autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen40
Número2
Fecha de publicación2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2002.016
OpenAlexW2041630844
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas10

The present article aims to examine, with the help of a made-up-word test, the psycholinguistic reality behind the generalizations assumed to govern the stress system of Spanish nonverbs, paying special attention to quantity sensitivity. I will argue that the apparent quantity sensitivity of Spanish nominals is a historical heritage, not an active constraint, and that the stress system of Spanish does not show rule-based behavior; stress is rather the lexical property of words, and the system works on the basis of analogical extensions

Linguistics · Sensitivity (control systems) · Sociology · Engineering · History · Philosophy · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation