Hiatus Resolution in Spanish: Motivating Forces, Constraining Factors, and Research Methods

Garrido, Marisol

doi:10.1111/lnc3.12026

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“…In this sense, they clearly treated all diphthong items the same, regardless of the structure of the English translation, or the type or positioning of the glide. What is interesting is the anti-diphthong pattern present in the data, especially given the general anti-hiatus tendency in Spanish (Colantoni & Hualde, 2016;Garrido, 2013;Souza, 2010). For example, it is well established in the literature that the normative pronunciation of vowel sequences beginning with mid vowels, such as teatro 'theater' and poeta 'poet', is one of hiatus (cf.…”

Section: Monolingual Performancementioning

confidence: 90%

Metalinguistic Intuitions and Dominant Language Transfer in Heritage Spanish Syllabification

Shelton

Counselman

Palma

2017

HLJ

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While heritage speakers of Spanish have been shown to differ from monolingual speakers along many morphosyntactic lines, comparatively few studies in heritage linguistics have focused on phonology. To test whether the knowledge of English phonotactics would influence Spanish-English heritage speaker syllabification patterns in Spanish, 29 heritage and 29 monolingual speakers of Spanish completed a paper-and-pencil syllabification task in which they divided 80 Spanish words into syllables. Stimuli were controlled for comparisons between Spanish and English phonotactic constraints. Specific attention was placed on the syllabification of vocalic sequences as diphthongs or hiatus. Based on the distribution of diphthongs in English, and the findings of cognate effects in a similar study by Zárate-Sández (2011), heritage speakers were predicted to break diphthongs into hiatus more often in cognates than noncognates, more often when the English translation of a cognate presented hiatus, more in rising diphthongs than in falling diphthongs, and more often when a rising diphthong contained a palatal rather than velar glide. These effects were all present in heritage speaker results. No significant effects were found for monolingual controls. These findings offer new data to the understudied field of heritage phonology and to the ongoing discussion of dominant language transfer effects.

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Section: Monolingual Performancementioning

confidence: 90%

Metalinguistic Intuitions and Dominant Language Transfer in Heritage Spanish Syllabification

Shelton

Counselman

Palma

2017

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“…Hiatus avoidance rules and changes are also common in Romance (see e.g. Garrapa, 2012;Garrido, 2013).…”

Section: The Phenomenon Explored: Cvc>c(v) Stemsmentioning

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Morphological autonomy and the long-term vitality of morphomes: stem-final consonant loss in Romance verbs and paradigmatic analogy

Herce

2023

Morphology

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Morphologists of different backgrounds disagree with respect to the degree of autonomy of the morphological component of language from syntax and semantics. A precise and objective quantification of the diachronic productivity of Romance morphomes is the piece of evidence most crucially missing from this debate. On the basis of 502 morphophonological innovations associated with the loss of stem-final consonants across 63 Romance varieties, this paper quantifies the degree of productivity of different morphomes (the N pattern is found to be the most productive one) and of morphomic templates generally (15% of novel stem alternations are found to abide by them). Although a strong attraction effect is detectable for morphomes, the numbers suggest that the morphological autonomy and longevity of stem alternations in the family might have been somewhat overstated. For an optimal account of the morphological innovations observed, reference to inherited morphomic structure, semantic structure, and to frequency of use are needed in similar proportions.

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“…Chitoran & Hualde, 2007 ), and specifi cally in Latin American Spanish (Alba, 2008 ;Garrido, 2013 ). Alba notes that "hiatus is commonly resolved in some way in speech.…”

Section: A L E ñ O S Pa N I S H O S E Amentioning

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“…It should be noted that the reduction of vowels in hiatus (e.g., /e.a/) to diphthongal realizations [ja] is a general tendency that has been observed in the Romance languages to diff erent degrees depending on the language (cf. Chitoran & Hualde, 2007 ), and specifi cally in Latin American Spanish (Alba, 2008 ;Garrido, 2013 ). Alba notes that "hiatus is commonly resolved in some way in speech.…”

Section: A L E ñ O S Pa N I S H O S E Amentioning

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Special reduction: a usage-based approach

Bybee¹,

File-Muriel²,

Souza³

2016

Lang. cogn.

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a b st r a c t 'Special reduction' refers to instances of extreme phonetic reduction which is restricted to particular words or phrases, usually grammaticalizing constructions ( going to > [gəɾə]), greetings ( hi from how are you ), discourse markers (Spanish o sea > sa ), or other sequences that are often used together. On the basis of data from English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Colombian Spanish, we argue that special reduction is based on the general phonetic tendencies in the language, but that these tendencies are carried to an extreme where word sequences are used with high frequency and become chunked, allowing formerly stressed syllables to lose stress and reduce. The data also show that special reduction takes place gradually over time, and refl ects general patterns of change seen in the history of the language. In fact, in some examples, special reduction presages more general sound changes that occur later. We argue that the gradual phonetic changes that accumulate for particular words or phrases, eventually changing them dramatically, requires an exemplar model for the phonological representation of words and phrases, which is updated continually as sequences are used and aff ected by reductive phonetic processes.k e y w o r d s : phonetic reduction , phonological change , frequency eff ects , chunking , exemplar models .[ * ] We would like to thank Earl Brown and Sarah Peceny for their work on the Colombian data, Chris Koops for his discussion on the gradient modeling of vowel formant transitions, Naomi Shin for giving feedback on the Spanish section, and Heliana Mello for drawing our attention to the C-Oral Brasil corpus. b y b e e e t a l . 422 IntroductionIt has sometimes been assumed that lexically restricted phenomena are of less interest to linguists and less revealing than phenomena that make up the more general and more regular core of the structure of a language. One contribution of cognitive and usage-based approaches has been to demonstrate that even restricted, lexically determined constructions reveal the same processing mechanisms that operate in more general constructions. In this paper, we turn the spotlight on phonological phenomena that at fi rst blush seem to be irregular, 'special', and outside the mainstream phonological trends -the extreme reduction that very frequent phrases and words undergo. Our argument rests on the fact that such reduction occurs in ongoing language use, and therefore turns out to provide evidence for the cognitive processes that shape phonology and grammar. We argue specifi cally that special reduction is one end of a continuum of interaction between the normal phonetic processes that occur in automated production and the frequency of use of words and phrases in particular contexts. The importance of special reduction to comprehension and production can be demonstrated with the example of the words can and can't . These two auxiliaries both undergo some reductive processes which help to keep them distinct. Can reduces by the change of the sequence [aen]...

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Hiatus Resolution in Spanish: Motivating Forces, Constraining Factors, and Research Methods

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Metalinguistic Intuitions and Dominant Language Transfer in Heritage Spanish Syllabification

Metalinguistic Intuitions and Dominant Language Transfer in Heritage Spanish Syllabification

Morphological autonomy and the long-term vitality of morphomes: stem-final consonant loss in Romance verbs and paradigmatic analogy

Special reduction: a usage-based approach

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