• DOI:10.1515/prbs.1990.2.3.321
• Corpus ID: 170933483

MORPHOLOGY AND VERBAL STRESS IN SPANISH

@inproceedings{Roca1990MORPHOLOGYAV,
  title={MORPHOLOGY AND VERBAL STRESS IN SPANISH},
  author={Iggy Roca},
  year={1990}
}

• Iggy Roca
• Published 1990
• Linguistics, Geology

Spanish nonverbal primary stress exhibits two (independent) dichotomies: final vs. penultimate, and penultimate vs. antepenultimate. In Roca (1990a) I derive the unmarked penultimate stress from level 0 and level l rightheaded constituency, coupled with extrametricality of the 'desinence' (although invariably stressless, this special rightmost morpheme induces three syllable window effects and must therefore be included in the stress domain). Final stress falls out of the regulär procedure in the absence of a desinence, while antepenultimate stress is analysed äs a leftward shift following from the erasure of the rightmost line 0 metrical asterisk in the forms bearing the appropiate lexical marking (a reinterpretation of the also diacritically-induced binary leftheaded footing of Roca 1988). The three linchpins of Roca's (1990) approach to stress can thus be summarised äs follows: