<OT> Bibliography of OT approaches to language change in Spanish/Hispano-Romance

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From: "D. Eric Holt" <deholt01 at gwm.sc.edu>

I'm updating a bibliography of work done in Optimality Theory and
language change in Spanish/Hispano-Romance, and wondered if there were
any additional published works (in print or in press) you might know
of. I'd also be interested in published works (and theses and
dissertations) on variation in Spanish/Hispano-Romance.

Many thanks,

Eric Holt

Alers-Valentín, Hilton. 2000. The Prosodic Structure of the Spanish
Verb: Evolution and Configuration. PhD dissertation, University of
Massachusetts.

Baker, Gary K. 2004. Palatal Phenomena in Spanish Phonology. PhD
dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville. (Contains chapters
on historical issues.)

Bradley, Travis G. and Ann Marie Delforge. 2005. Systemic Contrast and
the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing. In Historical Romance
Linguistics: Retrospectives and Perspectives, ed. Deborah Arteaga and
Randall Gess. Amsterdam: Benjamins. To appear.

Hartkemeyer, Dale. 1997. Romancing the Vowels: An Optimality-Theoretic
Account of Vowel Loss from Vulgar Latin to Early Western Romance.
Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 27.99-117.

—. 2000. An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Two Early W.
Romance Grammars: A Contrastive Examination of Old French and Old
Spanish. In New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance
Historical Linguistics Selected Papers from the LSRL XXIX Parasession,
ed. Steven N. Dworkin & Dieter Wanner, 65-84. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.

—. 2000. *V: An Optimality-Theoretic Examination of Vowel Loss
Phenomena, with Special Reference to Latin, Early Western Romance, and
Basque, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: PhD dissertation.

Holt, D. Eric. 1996. From Latin to Hispano-Romance: A Constraint-Based
Approach to Vowel Nasalization, Sonorant Simplification, and the Late
Spoken Latin Open Mid Vowels. In Papers from CLS 32, ed. Lise M.
Dobrin, Kora Singer & Lisa McNair, 111-123. Chicago: Chicago
Linguistic Society.

—. 1997. The Role of the Listener in the Historical Phonology of
Spanish and Portuguese: An Optimality-Theoretic Account, Georgetown
University: PhD dissertation. (Available from the Rutgers Optimality
Archive at <http://roa.rutgers.edu>.)

—. 1998. The Role of Comprehension, Reinterpretation and the
Uniformity Condition in Historical Change: The Case of the Development
of Cl Clusters from Latin to Hispano-Romance. In Proceedings of the
Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 1996, ed. Vida Samiian,
133-148, Department of Linguistics, California State University,
Fresno.

—. 1999. The Moraic Status of Consonants from Latin to
Hispano-Romance: The Case of Obstruents. In Advances in Hispanic
Linguistics: Papers from the Second Hispanic Linguistics Symposium,
ed. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach & Fernando Martínez-Gil, 166-181.
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

—. 2000. Comparative Optimality-Theoretic Dialectology:
Singular/plural nasal alternations in Galician, Mirandese (Leonese)
and Spanish. In Héctor Campos, Elena Herburger, Alfonso Morales-Front,
and Thomas J. Walsh, eds., Hispanic Linguistics at the Turn of the
Millennium: Papers from the Third Hispanic Linguistics Symposium.
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 125-143.

—. 2002. The Articulator Group and Liquid Geometry: Implications for
Spanish Phonology Present and Past. In Romance Phonology and Variation
(Papers from LSRL 30), ed. Caroline Wiltshire & Joaquim Camps, 85-99.
Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

—. 2003. Remarks on Optimality Theory and Language Change. In
Optimality Theory and Language Change, ed. D. Eric Holt, 1-30.
Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

—. 2003. The Emergence of Palatal Sonorants and Alternating Diphthongs
in Old Spanish. In Optimality Theory and Language Change, ed. D. Eric
Holt, 285-305. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

—. 2004. Optimization of syllable contact in Old Spanish via the
sporadic sound change metathesis. Probus: International Journal of
Latin and Romance Linguistics 16. 43-61. (Special issue on historical
phonology of Romance, Jean-Pierre Montreuil, ed.)

—. 2004. Sobre los cambios fónicos esporádicos que optimizan el
contacto silábico en el español antiguo: El caso de la metátesis.
Proceedings of the XIII Congreso de la Asociación de Lingüística y
Filología de América Latina (ALFAL), Universidad de Costa Rica,
February 18-23, 2002. Published on CD-ROM in February 2004.

Koontz-Garboden, Andrew. 2004.  Language contact and Spanish aspectual
expression: a formal analysis. Lingua 114.1291-1330.

Lle*, Conxita. 2003. Some Interactions between Word, Foot and Syllable
Structure in the History of the Spanish Language. In Optimality Theory
and Language Change, ed. D. Eric Holt, 249-283. Dordrecht, the
Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Martínez, Glenn A. 2000. Analogy and Optimality Theory in a
Morphological Change of Southwest Spanish. In New Approaches To Old
Problems: Issues In Romance Historical Linguistics, ed. Steven N.
Dworkin and Dieter Wanner, 85-96. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Martínez-Gil, Fernando. 2003. Consonant Intrusion in Heterosyllabic
Consonant-Liquid Clusters in Old Spanish and Old French: An Optimality
Theoretical Account. In A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge
and Use, ed. Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López, and Richard Cameron,
39-58. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Morris, Richard E. 2005. Attraction to the Unmarked in Old Spanish
Leveling. Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics
Symposium (University of New Mexico, October 16-18, 2003), ed. David
Eddington, 180-191. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
(Available at <http://www.lingref.com/>.)

On variation in Spanish:
Cutillas Espinosa, Juan Antonio. 2004. Meaningful Variability: A
Sociolinguistically-Grounded Approach to Variation in Optimality
Theory. 'Advances in Optimality Theory', a monograph issue of the
International Journal of English Studies (IJES), 4.2. 165-184, edited
by Paul Boersma and Juan Antonio Cutillas. ROA 761-0705.

Morris, Richard E. 1998. Stylistic Variation in Spanish Phonology. PhD
dissertation, Ohio State University. ROA 292-0199.