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Spanish stress and lexical accent across syntactic categories

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From the journal Probus

Abstract

In this paper, I provide an analysis of Spanish stress with the following three characteristics: (a) both verbal and non-verbal stress are accounted for in a single, unified, system, (b) the three-syllable window for stress is accounted for in a principled way, and (c) the stress algorithm has no access to the morphosyntactic structure. I do this by extending Roca’s analysis of variable edge parameters for stress in Spanish non-verbs to verbs, and by arguing that morphemes which mark for only person, number, and gender (φ-features) are outside of the domain of stress because they are prosodic adjuncts.

Acknowledgments

I would like to extend my gratitude to the many people who assisted at various points throughout this project. First, I would like to thank my Generals Paper committee – Elan Dresher, Bronwyn Bjorkman, and Keren Rice – who provided valuable insight and encouragement all throughout this process, as well as to Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and the audience of the University of Toronto Syntax Project for feedback on the morphological portion of this analysis, and to Diane Massam for guidance on how to navigate the publication process. The audiences of Societas Linguistica Europaea 2015, the Montreal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto Phonology Workshop 2014, and the Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages 44 all also provided great feedback. Finally, I’d like to thank Iggy Roca and the anonymous reviewers for providing great comments and discussion on drafts of this manuscript. All errors that remain are, of course, my own.

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