Torres-Tamarit (2024). Contrastive Vowel Length in Romance: How Layered Feet and Uneven Trochees Interact

Autors:

Francesc Torres-Tamarit

Títol:

Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

Editorial: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA
Data de publicació: 2024

Més informació
Text complet

According to Loporcaro's (2015) book on Romance length, contrastive vowel length in northern Italo-Romance is metrically-governed and implicationally distributed. CVL in proparoxytones implies CVL in paroxytones, but not the other way around. Likewise, CVL in paroxytones implies CVL in oxytones, but not vice versa. This paper develops a foot-based OT analysis of CVL in northern Italo-Romance that combines layered feet (Martínez-Paricio & Kager 2015) with uneven trochees (Jacobs 2019). The analysis adequately predicts the implicational distribution of CVL and discards unattested patterns.