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(13) limóne ‘lemon’
farína ‘flour’
Otherwise, there are good reasons to consider that the weight of the penult determines in most
cases the locus of stress:
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'L / 'H
A frequently discussed issue is whether verbs should be considered as having the same stress
pattern as nouns and adjectives or not (cf. Roca 1999, Krämer to appear). Here I consider that
verbs do not behave differently from nouns and adjectives as far as stress is concerned. There
are only 9 cases (out of 48) in the paradigm where stress is relatively ‘free’, and only for –are
verbs:
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1 2 3 4 5 6
Pres. Ind. cómplico cómplichi cómplica complichiámo complicáte cómplicano
fatíco fatíchi fatíca fatichiámo faticáte fatícano
Pres. Subj. cómplichi cómplichi cómplichi complichiámo complichiáte cómplichino
fatíchi fatíchi fatíchi fatichiámo fatichiáte fatíchino
Imperative cómplica
fatíca
faticare = ‘labour’
complicare = ‘complicate’
Cf. data from Kenstowicz & Zuraw (2002) on a corpus of some 1.500 verbs of this type:
Penult
closed Open
paroxytons 963 307
proparoxytons 0 251
In general, verbs derived from nouns / adjectives by prefixation or coversion conserve the
stress of their base:
(16) rótolo arrótolo
‘roll’ ‘roll up-1 SG PRES IND’
caténa incaténo
‘chain’ ‘chain-1 SG PRES IND’
teléfono teléfono
‘telephone’ ‘phone-1 SG PRES IND’
Why is the proparoxytonic pattern the non marked one for L words? We cannot really rely
on the existing lexicon or on words resembling to existing ones. However, some facts support
this view.
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