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Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Semantic Typology and Semantic Universals (1993)

The provinces of Alicante and Valencia, located in the Mediterranean coast of Spain, are important viticulture areas since historic times. In the context of the research project CGL2015-70843-R, we initiated different approaches in order to recover ancient varieties threatened of disappearance and we developed in vitro protocols for virus sanitation and in vitro conservation of the recovered germplasm. Among the historic varieties, we localized several accessions of varieties that were commonly grown in the pre-phylloxera era in the provinces of Alicante and Valencia (i.e. 'Valencí blanc', 'Valencí negre', 'Planta Mula', 'Botó de Gall' or 'Raïm del Clotet'). Microsatellite profiles were obtained to confirm or identify the surveyed germplasms and genetic variability was observed. In addition, a survey was carried out covering the main area of 'Monastrell' cultivation in the Vinos de Alicante Protected Designation of Origin. This ancient variety, also known as 'Mourvèdre', is cultivated mainly in the southeast of Spain and it is highly adapted to the dry and warm climate of this area. Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) was used to estimate the genetic diversity of this variety and high variability was found. This analysis will provide a high number of high quality SNPs well distributed across the genome suitable for genotyping of clones, which will allow the design of strategies optimizing their conservation and use.

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A perplexing problem for serial approaches to phonological description is the occurrence ofrule-ordering paradoxes. This paper investigates aparticular type of paradox that emerges in a mle-based analysis ofcoda-final obstruent Vocalization in dialectal Chilean Spanish. Vocalization interacts with two other principles in Spanish: voiced obstruent spirantization, and the condition requiring a minimal sonority distance between the two members of a complex onset. It is shown that spirantization, a postlexical rule of Spanish, must apply before vocalization, arguably a lexical one, because it only applies within words. This result undermines one ofthe main tenets of lexical phonology, in which the internal organization of the grammar is such that lexical rules must precede their postlexical counterparts. A simple solution to the problem is suggested within Optimality Theory, where the observed interaction is explained äs the result of constraint ranking. In this approach there are no serial procedures, and thus the mentioned paradox does not arise. The failure of vocalization to affect voiced obstruents occur across word boundaries is shown to be irrelevant to the lexical-postlexical disünction. Instead, it is viewedas the consequence ofan independently motivated My special thanks to Professor Gladys Cepeda at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia, who provided me with valuable Information regarding the data on dialectal Chilean Spanish under consideration here. I am grateful to Alfonso Morales-Front, and to Carlos Eduardo Pineros, äs well äs two anonymous reviewers, for insightful comments on several aspects discussed in this work. Finally, I would like thank Jim Harris, who generously took his time to discuss at length the issues raised in this paper. As the reader will find out (see especially note 10), we disagree on the particular theoretical treatment of the Chilean data, äs well äs other matters regarding sonority and its role on constraining consonantal combinations in Spanish complex onsets. Our disagreement notwithstanding, Jim's criticisms have had a beneficial impact on the present version of this paper because they encouraged me to sharpen the details and motivation of my own proposals. None of the above is responsible for any error or omission found in this paper. Probus 9 (1997), 167-202 0921 -4471/97/009-167 © Walter de Gruyter Brought to you by | Michigan State University Authenticated Download Date | 6/10/15 12:41 PM 168 F. Martinez-Gil constraint in Spanish requiring a certain type ofalignment ofmorphological and prosodic categories, namely that the edge ofevery morphological word in Spanish coincide with the beginning ofa syllable.