Reconsidering syllabic minimality in Spanish truncation

• Autores: Antonio Grau Sempere
• Localización: ELUA: Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de Alicante, ISSN-e 2171-6692, ISSN 0212-7636, Nº 27, 2013, págs. 121-144
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.14198/elua2013.27.05
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  • English

    It is well known that the minimal size of a content word in Spanish is bimoraic monosyllable. It is also well established that the minimal size of a Spanish foot is also a monosyllable, as long as it is bimoraic. Accordingly, this study defends that the shape of Spanish truncated words is minimally a bimoraic single syllable as well, and offers an optimality theoretical analysis of the data.

  • English

    Se sabe que la palabra mínima en español contiene una sola sílaba que domina a dos moras. También se ha demostrado que el pie métrico mínimo en español es monosilábico bimoraico. Así, este estudio sostiene que el tamaño mínimo de los truncamientos en español es igualmente monosílabico bimoraico y ofrece un análisis basado en la Teoría de la Optimidad

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