Descriptive Adequacy vs. Psychological Reality: The Case of Two Restrictions on Spanish Stress Placement

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Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2390
Title	Descriptive Adequacy vs. Psychological Reality: The Case of Two Restrictions on Spanish Stress Placement
BYU Creator	Alvord, Scott M.
Creator	Face, Timothy L.
Keywords	stress placement; lexicon; three-syllable window condition; heavy penult condition
Description/Abstract	This paper examines two supposed restrictions on Spanish stress placement: 1) the heavy penult condition, which prohibits stress leftward of the penultimate syllable if the penultimate syllable is heavy, and 2) the three-syllable window condition, which prohibits stress other than on one of the final three syllables of a word. While these two conditions are clearly descriptively adequate generalizations about the lexicon, this study sets out to determine whether they are psychologically real restrictions, serving as constraints that prohibit words that violate them. The results of a perception study indicate that neither of these conditions is a psychologically real restriction on Spanish stress placement. While the present study adds another type of evidence to recent claims that Spanish is not quantity sensitive, it goes a step further with respect to the heavy penult condition by claiming that words that violate this condition are not disallowed by Spanish at all. With respect to the three-syllable window condition, this study is the first to claim that this exceptionless generalization about Spanish stress is nothing more than a generalization over words in the lexicon, and is not a true restriction on Spanish stress placement.
Source	Alvord, Scott M. and Timothy L. Face. 2005. Descriptive adequacy vs. psychological reality: The case of two restrictions on Spanish stress. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 32:2 1-16.;
Publisher	University of Illinois
Date Original	10-01-2005
Language	English eng en
Publication Type	Articles
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	College of Humanities
BYU Department	Spanish and Portuguese
Copyright Status	© 2005 Timothy L. Face & Scott M. Alvord
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

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