Stressed Clitic Pronouns in Two Spanish Varieties: A perception study

Stressed Clitic Pronouns in Two Spanish Varieties: A perception study

Clitic elements are prosodically attached to another phonological word. As such, they do not carry their own stress. In general, Spanish non-prepositional object pronouns (e. g. me/te/le/lo/se) meet the definition of clitic, whether preposed (proclitic) or postposed (enclitic) to the verb. Neverthel...

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Published in:Catalan journal of linguistics Vol. 18; p. 105
Main Authors: Colantoni, Laura, Hualde, Jose-Ignacio, Icardo Isasi, Ane
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Barcelona Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions 01-01-2019
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Subjects:
Accentuation
Argentine Spanish
Clitics
Language varieties
prominence
Pronouns
Prosodic units
Romance languages
secondary stress
Sound change
Spanish language
Spanish phonology
Speech perception
Stress
stress perception
Tense
Verbs
Argentina
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Summary:Clitic elements are prosodically attached to another phonological word. As such, they do not carry their own stress. In general, Spanish non-prepositional object pronouns (e. g. me/te/le/lo/se) meet the definition of clitic, whether preposed (proclitic) or postposed (enclitic) to the verb. Nevertheless, in several Romance varieties, including some Spanish varieties, the stress may surface on the clitic in verb+clitic(s) groups. We refer to this phenomenon as Enclitic Stress Shift (ESS). In this paper, we report on the perception of ESS by Spanish speakers from Argentina and Spain and explore the acoustic dimensions that may affect this perception. The discussion includes comparisons with other Romance languages and implications for sound change, such as the changes in stress patterns in the development of future and conditional tenses.
ISSN:1695-6885
2014-9719
DOI:10.5565/rev/catjl.260