کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1103601 1488165 2009 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Unstressed words in Spanish
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Unstressed words in Spanish
چکیده انگلیسی

In this paper, I examine the prosodic nature of unstressed function words in Spanish. I defend the hypothesis that these words, like all other words in the language, have a syllable that is lexically designated as stressed. I suggest that the essential property of these words is that they are subject to a rule of prosodic merger with following elements within the syntactic phrase, creating a single prosodic word domain. Their surface stresslessnes, I argue, is a consequence of the fact that, by a general rule operating in the language, only the rightmost lexical stress is preserved within a prosodic word domain in Spanish. I also consider several pragmatic contexts in which these words may receive stress in discourse. Finally, I briefly compare stresslessness in Spanish with accentlessness in Basque and tonelessness in Bantu languages.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Language Sciences - Volume 31, Issues 2–3, March–May 2009, Pages 199–212
نویسندگان
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