The Ibero-Romance rhotics : Of fake geminates, weight and sonority
Brandão de Carvalho, Joaquim (Université Paris 8 (França))

Date:	2024
Abstract:	The two rhotic consonants of Ibero-Romance languages are characterised by their very specific distribution and by the prosodic weight of one of them. Data has hitherto suggested a geminate-to-single contrast for the pair of rhotics. It will be shown here that this view must be rejected in favour of another which sees these putative geminates as complex syllabic onsets. But this hypothesis only holds if it can be shown that sonorants and only sonorants are likely to have weight in onset position in these languages. The Alignment theory of sonority makes this possible since sonority and weight appear as particular cases of the behaviour of the nucleus in that framework.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Rhotics ; Trills ; Sonority ; Prosodic weight ; Ibero-Romance phonology
Published in:	Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 1 (2024) , p. 1-18 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v10-n1-brandao
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DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.376

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