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Stressed postverbal pronominals in Catalan

Majorcan Catalan postverbal pronominal elements are typically described as being prominent due to stress shift from their host. This study sheds light on the prosodic phonology of these pronouns through the analysis of duration, vowel quality, and f0 in verb + pronominal sequences, which are compared to a baseline condition without pronominals and to the same sequences in a Catalan variety without stress shift. Our results show acoustic differences in the realization of pronominals in these varieties. The duration and vowel quality patterns are consistent with the stress shift account of postverbal pronominals in Majorcan Catalan. Analysis of f0 contours also reveals phonological differences across varieties. Whereas stressed postverbal pronominals are not rare in Romance, Majorcan Catalan is one of a much reduced number of varieties within the Romance domain, where the attachment of a pronominal element to a host triggers "true" stress shift rather than an additional prominence on the pronominal element, like Sardinian or Neapolitan.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/623956
Date01 January 2017
CreatorsNadeu, Marianna, Simonet, Miquel, Llompart, Miquel
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Dept Spanish & Portuguese
PublisherDE GRUYTER MOUTON
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
RightsCopyright © 2016, Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Relationhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/prbs.2017.29.issue-1/probus-2016-0016/probus-2016-0016.xml

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