Syllable Structure

Colina, Sonia

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“…Beyond singleton codas, future research should also investigate bilinguals' and monolinguals' acquisition of coda clusters, which are relatively frequent in English (Delattre & Olsen, 1969) but rarely occur in Spanish (Delattre & Olsen, 1969;Guffey, 2002). Furthermore, Spanish coda clusters only end in /s/, which has been analyzed as an adjunct or appendix (Colina, 2009(Colina, , 2012Harris, 1983;Hualde, 1999), allowing the generalization that Spanish in fact lacks true coda clusters.…”

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Interaction in Spanish–English bilinguals’ acquisition of syllable structure

Keffala

Barlow

Rose

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions:This study investigated whether language-specific syllable type frequency and complexity exerted cross-language influence on Spanish-English bilingual children's acquisition of syllable structure. Design/methodology/approach: We compared the accuracy of bilingual and monolingual children's singleton coda and onset cluster productions from Spanish and English single words elicited via a picture-naming task. Task stimuli provided multiple opportunities to produce all possible singleton coda and onset cluster types in each language. Data and analysis: Ten typically developing Spanish-English bilingual children (ages: 2;01-4;08) completed the task in each language. Five Spanish and 12 English age-matched monolingual peers completed the same task in their respective languages. Data were analyzed using mixed effects logistic regression. Analyses compared bilinguals' Spanish and English singleton coda and onset cluster production accuracy rates to those of monolinguals. Findings/conclusions: Our results indicate that interaction occurred in bilinguals' syllable structure acquisition in both languages. Bilinguals' acquisition of singleton codas was accelerated relative to monolinguals' in Spanish. Furthermore, bilinguals' acquisition of complex onsets was accelerated in both Spanish and English. Results did not suggest that bilinguals' acquisition of English singleton codas was delayed. Originality: This is the first study to show that exposure to patterns of linguistic complexity specific to each language can accelerate bilinguals' acquisition of phonological structure in both languages. Significance/implications: Our findings demonstrate that cross-language differences in complexity influence how interaction appears during bilinguals' phonological acquisition, and suggest further investigation regarding the influence of frequency.

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Interaction in Spanish–English bilinguals’ acquisition of syllable structure

Keffala

Barlow

Rose

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…For example, in the diphthongization of non‐high hiatus vowels, the least sonorous segment is the one that undergoes gliding ([e. a] > [ja] or ). The sonority property also accounts for the reduction of adjacent identical vowels (see examples in ) reported by different authors (Jenkins ; Martínez‐Gil ; Bakovic ; Colina ). Segments of identical sonority are dispreferred and normally reduced to one, via elision or coalescence (merging) of the two segments.…”

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“…Regarding the syllabic structure of hiatuses, recent studies from Optimality Theory (Jenkins ; Bakovic ; Colina ) explain that these sequences tend to be resolved because of violation of the onset constraint (i.e., syllables must have onsets), a principle that governs the well‐formedness of Spanish syllables. On the other hand, the principle of articulatory economy or effort reduction may be identified as an active force in hiatus resolution, since most of the reported strategies involve some form of reduction, shortening, or syllable contraction.…”

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“…Particularly, the quality of the vowels in the sequence has been identified as predictor of variability patterns in different studies. Colina () identifies sonority (perceptual prominence and/or degree of stricture of a segment) as a criterion that determines variation in the articulation of adjacent vowels in most dialects. Based on the degree of sonority, some vowels are more likely to undergo changes than others.…”

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Hiatus Resolution in Spanish: Motivating Forces, Constraining Factors, and Research Methods

Garrido

2013

Language and Linguist. Compass

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In this paper, I review previous research on the tendency to resolve hiatus vowel sequences in Spanish, a phenomenon of language variation, especially reported in Latin American varieties. I report on the main factors that motivate and constrain the observed variability, including the force of internal linguistic principles as well as the external factors (social variables) that mediate on language variation and change. I conclude this paper by discussing some unexplored topics and methodological issues to be considered in future research.

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“…For more detailed studies of glide denuclearization and its various subcases, see Colina (2012), Harris (1969), Harris and Kaisse (1999), and Hualde (1991). Importantly, the rule in (14) is barred from applying in v domains-this is probably connected with the fact that v is not cyclic in the diphthongization does apply.…”

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Stem Storage? Not Proven: A Reply to Bermúdez-Otero 2013

Myler

2015

Linguistic Inquiry

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Bermúdez-Otero (2013) argues that the Spanish lexicon stores whole stems complete with their theme vowels, rather than storing roots whose inflectional class features condition the insertion of particular theme vowels (as argued for in much Distributed Morphology work on Romance, such as Oltra-Massuet 1999; Oltra-Massuet & Arregi 2005). The argument turns on an apparent cyclicity paradox which Bermúdez-Otero (2013:65, 71) dubs the problem of the missing cycle. Bermúdez-Otero argues that this problem cannot be avoided if roots and categorizing heads are held to be atoms stored in the Spanish lexicon. The paradox can be circumvented only by embracing the notion of 'stem' and taking the stem to be the unit stored as a lexical primitive. This conclusion, if correct, would have far-reaching implications for the theory of the architecture of the grammar, since the notion of stem does not and cannot have any status as a primitive in a theory that is committed to the ideas of syntactic hierarchical structure all the way down and the strictly local determination of conditioned allomorphy (such as Distributed Morphology)-see Embick & Halle (2005). The notion that a morphologically complex unit like a stem could be stored, and behave as a unit with respect to conditioned allomorphy, is not compatible with either of these tenets. Therefore, if Bermúdez-Otero's argument is right, it follows that some of the fundamental architectural claims of Distributed Morphology are wrong.

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Syllable Structure

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Interaction in Spanish–English bilinguals’ acquisition of syllable structure

Interaction in Spanish–English bilinguals’ acquisition of syllable structure

Hiatus Resolution in Spanish: Motivating Forces, Constraining Factors, and Research Methods

Stem Storage? Not Proven: A Reply to Bermúdez-Otero 2013

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