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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
Kalivoda, Nick and Francesc Torres-Tamarit. Under review. The grammar of phonological phrasing in Catalan. In Borik, Olga, David Navarro Ciurana, Silvia Sánchez Calderón and Ismael Teomiro, (eds), Generative Grammar in Iberia 2025. Selected papers of the 34^th Colloquium on Generative Grammar. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 25.

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.