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Ryan, Mary Moran.

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Quantifying the Functional Consequences of Spanish [S] Lenition: Plural Marking and Derived Homophony in Western Andalusian and Castilian.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Quantifying the Functional Consequences of Spanish [S] Lenition: Plural Marking and Derived Homophony in Western Andalusian and Castilian./
Author:	Ryan, Mary Moran.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	66 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-01(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10633842
ISBN:	9780355350203

Quantifying the Functional Consequences of Spanish [S] Lenition: Plural Marking and Derived Homophony in Western Andalusian and Castilian.
Ryan, Mary Moran.

Quantifying the Functional Consequences of Spanish [S] Lenition: Plural Marking and Derived Homophony in Western Andalusian and Castilian. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 66 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-01.

Thesis (M.A.)--San Jose State University, 2017.

In this thesis, a new methodology is proposed for investigating Spanish [s] lenition (sound weakening or loss) via morphological analysis instead of phonetics. Word-final [s] is a morphological plural marker in Castilian Spanish, but is rarely produced in Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS). It is often asserted in the literature that the loss of [s] in WAS requires plurality to be expressed fcvia alternative means. The results of this study rule out lexical and morpho-syntactic compensation for [s] lenition in WAS in several previously untested domains, and imply that there is no functional motivation in Modern Spanish driving a need for compensation for word-final [s] lenition on nouns or determiners. This investigation is built on a predictable calculation of the environments in which the loss of [s] may result in derived singular/plural homophony in WAS nouns. This is used to quantify potential semantic ambiguity. A frequency comparison of 27,366 WAS and Castilian nouns, across 60 specific Determiner + Noun phrase environments, finds no significant differences between the dialects in the type or token frequencies of numerically ambiguous nouns, nor in 98.7% of the tested phrase environments. When taken in context with studies excluding phonetic compensation in WAS, the current results suggest that the low semantic relevance of word-final [s] in Modern Spanish is a potentially far-reaching explanation for the variable manifestations of [s] lenition experienced in Spanish dialects across the world.

ISBN: 9780355350203Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

Quantifying the Functional Consequences of Spanish [S] Lenition: Plural Marking and Derived Homophony in Western Andalusian and Castilian.
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