Empty consonants and other CV-tier effects in Aranese Gascon

• José Ignacio Hualde ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Illinois
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Vol. 86, Nº 2-3, 1992, págs. 177-188
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • n this paper, strong support for the existence and independence of the CV-tier is derived from a number of facts in the phonology of the Aranese dialect of Gascon. It is shown that this language possesses both word-initial and word-final empty consonants, and that it also makes a distinction between tautomorphemic and heteromorphemic affricates which should be captured in terms of a difference in the linkage to the CV-tier. These facts have special significance in view of recent proposals to eliminate the CV-tier from phonological representations.