morphological? - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
morphological? - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
morphological? - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
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Diachronic and stylistic variation:<br />
(17)<br />
a. Latin Italian<br />
expltus éspleto<br />
‘complete’ ‘accomplish-1 SG PRES IND’<br />
irrto írrito<br />
‘irritate’<br />
permto pérmuto<br />
‘permute’<br />
b. Base Derived<br />
valúto váluto<br />
‘be worth-PAST PART’ ‘evaluate-1 SG PRES IND’<br />
fervóre inférvoro<br />
‘fervor’ ‘excite-1 SG PRES IND’<br />
vapóre eváporo<br />
‘steam’ ‘evaporate-1 SG PRES IND’<br />
In other cases, we can observe ‘pure’ phonological principles at work. In particular, when<br />
there is a clash between a lexically assigned and a phonologically assigned stress. According<br />
to D’Imperio & Rosenthall (1999) a hypothetical word having an underlying stress on the preantepenult<br />
should surface with a paroxytonic stress. However, some rare words of this type do<br />
exist, and the stress pattern predicted by them is the least acceptable according to native<br />
speakers’ judgments. Eight native speakers were asked to conjugate the two verbs<br />
incellofanare (‘to wrap up with cellophane’) and monitorare (‘to observe through a monitor’)<br />
at the 1Sg. Pres. Ind., and to read a phrase containing the compound senegalo-guineano<br />
(‘Senegalo-Guinean’). The structure of these words is given in (18a), and the results of the<br />
test in (18b):<br />
(18)<br />
a. cellophane ['] incellofanare<br />
monitor ['] monitorare<br />
Senegal ['] senegalo-guineano<br />
b.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
incellófano<br />
monítoro<br />
senégalo<br />
incéllofano<br />
mónitoro<br />
sénegalo<br />
incellofáno<br />
monitóro<br />
senegálo<br />
3-syllable window base-derivate faith<br />
*<br />
*<br />
*<br />
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