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ROA 806-0206

Prominence-driven epenthesis in Alguerese Catalan

Maria-Rosa Lloret <mrosa.lloret at ub.edu>
Jesús Jiménez <jesus.jimenez at uv.es>

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Abstract:
This paper deals with epenthesis in Alguerese, which is
the Catalan variety spoken in the Sardinian town of Alghero
(Italy). Alguerese uses two different vowel epentheses:
[a] at the word level and [i] between words, each of them
appearing in a different phonological context, not determined
by assimilation. It thus challenges parallel, monostratal
approaches to epenthesis as well as the claim that, in epenthesis
, except for assimilatory environments, the same default
vowel is always inserted. We offer a parallel OT analysis
of these facts and show that the selection of one or the
other vowel is not arbitrary but is driven by prominence
(in line with work by Uffmann 2004, 2005).

Comments: Handout: 3rd Old-World Conference in Phonology (OCP-3), 17-19 January 2006, Budapest (Hungary)
Keywords: Epenthesis, prominence, parallelism, Catalan
Areas: Phonology
Type: Conference Handout

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