La representació de les palatals

• Main Author: Blanca Palmada
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana (IIFV); Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat (PAM) 2015-10-01
• Series: Caplletra: Revista Internacional de Filologia
• Subjects: fonologia; consonants palatals
• Online Access: https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/caplletra/article/view/7363
• ISSN: 0214-8188; 2386-7159

<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>The benefits of a Complex Segment representation for palatals have been considered in the light of gliding </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>processes which turn these consonants into glides. Gliding processes have sometimes been described as </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>«destridentization» and «delateralization». But this view gives no explanation of why vocalization is restricted to </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>sorne segments, and plain stridents and laterals do not suffer from it. I have examined gliding processes affecting stridents and laterals to show that a solution based on Feature Geometry is required. The crucial observation is that every speech sound must have a major articulator, and that this constraint applies along the phonological derivation. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>Since Coronal is the unmarked specification for Place, its presence crucially depends on that of its subordinate features, Strident and Lateral. In this way, if a rule removes Strident or Lateral from the representation, Coronal </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>will also be lost. Consequently, the remaining Dorsal articulator is interpreted as Primary, resulting in a glide. My </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>paper has focused on two cases that involve the delinking of a dependent of Coronal in Majorcan Catalan.</span></span></span></p>