Simple metathesis in loanword phonology: the Arabic-Romance language contact

• Yvonne Kiegel-Keicher ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Giessen

     University of Giessen

     Distrito de Gießen, Alemania

     
• Localización: Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, ISSN-e 1865-9063, ISSN 0049-8661, Vol. 136, Nº 4, 2020, págs. 1049-1084
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Simple metathesis can be found in numerous Ibero-Romance arabisms compared with their Andalusi Arabic etyma. The analysis of a corpus of Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan arabisms illustrates its effects on syllable structure and syllable weight. It can be shown that Arabic-Romance simple metathesis constitutes a motivated structural change that provides for typologically unmarked syllable weight relations within the word. After the resyllabification it entails the involved unstressed syllables no longer excede the stressed syllable in weight. However, it is not an obligatory, systematic process, but merely an optional tendency, which corresponds to the universal tendency expressed by the Weight Law.