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Línies d’investigació / Research interests

Teoria fonològica | Gramàtiques basades en restriccions | Fonologia mètrica i prosòdica | Fonologia i les seves interfícies | Tipologia lingüística | Fonologia del català | Fonologia de l’espanyol | Llengües romàniques | Bretó | Hebreu 

Phonological theory | Constraint-based grammars | Metrical and prosodic phonology | Phonology and its interfaces | Linguistic typology | Catalan phonology | Spanish phonology | Romance languages | Breton | Hebrew

Publicacions recents dels 5 últims anys / Recent publications from the last 5 years

Books
Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. In preparation. A stratal phonology of Catalan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal papers
Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. Accepted. Modularity, cyclicity, and constrained non-uniformity in Spanish stress assignment. Linguistic Inquiry.

Faust, Noam and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2025. Les alternances vocal-zero en hebreu modern: el cas dels compostos prosòdics. Tamid. Revista catalana anual d’estudis hebraics. 20: 175-187.

Ramírez, Marta, Francesc Torres-Tamarit and Miquel Simonet. 2025. Velar palatalization, phonologization, and sound change – A comparative acoustic study of /k/-fronting in Majorcan Catalan. Journal of Phonetics 112: 101430.

Faust, Noam and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2024. Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 42(4): 1371-1389.

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc and Violeta Martínez-Paricio. 2024. The prosody of Spanish acronyms. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 42(2): 815-848.

Hamann, Silke and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2023. Sound change in Eivissan Catalan: an acoustic analysis of the vowel systems of young native speakers. Phonetica 80(1-2): 43-78.

Pons-Moll, Clàudia, Ignasi Mascaró and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2023. Prosodically-driven morpheme non-realization in the Minorcan Catalan DP. Linguistics 61(3): 499-546.

Mascaró, Joan and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2022. Stress-dependent harmony in Asturian and harmony in situ. Language: a journal of the Linguistic Society of America 98(4): 683-715.

Lampitelli, Nicola, Paolo Roseano and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2022. Vowel length in Friulian verbs: a case of mora affixation. Morphology 32(1): 93-120.

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. 2022. Les seqüències d’infinitiu seguit de pronom(s) feble(s) en el català d’Eivissa i Formentera. Formentera 8: 21-31.

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc and Maria del Mar Vanrell. 2021. Els universals lingüístics i el marcatge en l’ensenyament de la pronunciació del català com a llengua estrangera. CLIL. Journal of Innovation and Research in Plurilingual and Pluricultural Education 4(2): 35-48.

Cabré, Teresa, Francesc Torres-Tamarit and Maria del Mar Vanrell. 2021. Hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian. Linguistics 59(3): 683-714.

Edited books and journal special issues
Pons-Moll, Clàudia, Francesc Torres and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds). Forthcoming. La fonologia del català. València: Tirant lo Blanch.

Gavarró, Anna, Jaume Mateu, Jon Ander Mendia and Francesc Torres-Tamarit (eds). 2024. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2022: Selected papers from Going Romance 36, Barcelona. Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(3)/14.

Cabré, Teresa, and Francesc Torres-Tamarit (eds). 2021. Recursivity in Phonology. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 20.

Book chapters
Real-Puigdollers, Cristina and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. Forthcoming. Morphophonological effects. In Bonet, Eulàlia and Diego Pescarini (eds), Oxford Handbook of Clitics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc and Eva Zimmermann. In press. The interface between morphology and phonology. In Fábregas, Antonio, Laia Mayol, Clàudia Pons-Moll and Yanina Prystauka (eds), Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. In press. Optimality Theory. In press. Reference Module in Social Sciences, Elsevier. To appear in International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition, Elsevier.

Jouitteau, Mélanie and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. In press. The syntax of Modern Breton. In Eska, Joseph F., Silva Nurmio, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh and Paul Russell (eds), Palgrave Handbook of Celtic languages and linguistics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. In press. Hypocoristics. In Kuniya Nasukawa, Bridget Samuels, Geoff Schwartz and Miklós Törkenczy (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc and Maria del Mar Vanrell. In press. Prosodic variation II: stress and intonation. In Cristina Sánchez López (ed.), A guide to Spanish dialects: Descriptive and theoretical aspects of linguistic variation in the Hispanic world (chapter 21). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Burkard, Monja, Francesc Torres-Tamarit and Maria del Mar Vanrell. In press. Spanish in contact with Catalan in the Balearic Islands. In Leonardo Cerno, Hans-Jörg Döhla, Miguel Gutiérrez Maté, Robert Hesselbach and Joachim Steffen (eds), Contact varieties of Spanish and Spanish-lexified contact varieties. Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter.

Bonet, Eulàlia & Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2022. Typologically exceptional phenomena in Romance phonology. In Ledgeway, Adam & Martin Maiden (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics, 292-318. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. 2021. Blending and truncation. In Fábregas, Antonio, Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Grant Armstrong, Cristina Cuervo & Isabel Pujol (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology, 317-332. Abingdon/New York: Taylor & Francis.

Conference proceedings

Torres-Tamarit, Francesc. 2024. Contrastive vowel length in Romance: how layered feet and uneven trochees interact. In Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith and Heidi Harley (eds), 243-252. Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Pons-Moll, Clàudia and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. 2021. Catalan nativization patterns in the light of weighted scalar constraints. In Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen and Luisa Meroni (eds), Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from Going Romance 32, Utrecht, 206-223. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.