2009
DOI: 10.1075/cilt.306.13cab
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Vowel reduction and vowel harmony in Eastern Catalan loanword phonology

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to account for the phonological adaptation of loanwords in Eastern Catalan. As the phonology of these new words deviates from that of the native Catalan vocabulary set (with a certain amount of variation among speakers), the new phonetic features would seem to be borrowed from Spanish. We suggest that a new phonology has emerged whose purpose is to identify loans among the lexicon, the most striking element of this phonology being a harmony effect on stressed mid vowels in the presence… Show more

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“…In fact (and with the caveat that our data were not designed to test this claim), to foreshadow one finding of this study, our data (Appendix C) do not seem to corroborate the hypothesis that verbal forms that alternate with a reduced vowel in the infinitive are less stable. Neologisms, borrowings, or learned words were not included, given that their phonological behavior departs from native vocabulary in some respects (Cabré, 2009).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In fact (and with the caveat that our data were not designed to test this claim), to foreshadow one finding of this study, our data (Appendix C) do not seem to corroborate the hypothesis that verbal forms that alternate with a reduced vowel in the infinitive are less stable. Neologisms, borrowings, or learned words were not included, given that their phonological behavior departs from native vocabulary in some respects (Cabré, 2009).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Low mid vowels are triggered by the presence of prestressed suffixes (Mascaró, 1984), posttonic /i, j/ and (much less strongly) /u/ (Mascaró, 2008;Wheeler, 2005). In addition, Catalan speakers are claimed to favor low mid vowels in their pronunciation of borrowings, neologisms, cultisms, or brand names (Badia Margarit, 1966;Mascaró, 2008;Pi-Mallarach, 2001, 2007, although a strong tendency to produce loanwords in ways that depart from the native phonology has also been attested (i.e., without low mid vowels and without vowel reduction, Cabré, 2009). …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…According to Cabré (2009), loanwords in Eastern Catalan have triggered a new phonology, especially patent in stressless vowel system. For Mascaró (2002, 110-113) loanwords exhibit lexically specified exceptions to vowel reduction, while according to Cabré (2009), in addition to vowel reduction blockage, vowel harmony is also involved, consisting of the long distance assimilation of stressed mid vowels to a following [+ATR] mid vowel. As shown in examples in (23), taken from Cabré (2009, 268), instead of reducing to schwa, stressless vowels surface as [+ATR] (cf.…”
Section: Loanword Phonologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, the processes of deletion of posttonic -n and -r in (absolute) word-final position (canço[n] Cabré (2009) shows how initial epenthesis is «one of the basic and unavoidable phonological processes of Catalan; "native" vowel reduction, on the other hand, is not such a central process». And in the present paper we show how native vowel reduction in Majorcan Catalan is indeed challenged in several circumstances, thus confirming that it is not a fundamental process of the language.…”
Section: Differential Importation and Phonological Productivitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…a) Bonet & Lloret 1998;Cabré 2002Cabré , 2006Cabré , 2009Mascaró 2002). c) The morphological structure of the words, which, in some cases, favour the presence of a secondary stress which explains lack of vowel reduction.…”
Section: Empirical Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%