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Spanish Stress: The Extrametricality Issue

By James W. Harris

The analysis of Spanish stress has been the subject of much controversy over the past decades. Most previous analyses of Spanish stress have treated stress on verbs differently than stress on other parts of speech. In this article, James Harris offers a unified account of Spanish stress in which all parts of speech are handled by the same stress algorithm. In offering a unified analysis Harris deals with the major important issues in Spanish stress such as the role of syllable weight, the role of inflectional affixes, and the observation that stress normally falls on one of the last three syllables of the word. Harris's work is a must read for anyone interested in phonological theory or in Spanish linguistics.

55 pages
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