Côté Marie-Hélène, Mathieu Éric (Eds.). Variation within and across Romance Languages

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. — 436 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 333).Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ottawa, 5–7 May 2011This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time, linguistic contexts, and communicative situations. Furthermore, the articles address common theoretical and empirical issues from different formal, experimental, or corpus-based perspectives. The languages analyzed belong to the main members of the Romance family, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Ladin, Italian, Sardinian, and Romanian, and a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields, from phonetics to semantics, as well as historical linguistics, bilingualism and second-language learning, is covered. By illustrating the richness and complementarity of subjects, methods, and theoretical frameworks explored within Romance linguistics, significant contributions are made to both the documentation of Romance languages and to linguistic theory.Sound Patterns
Sibilant voicing assimilation in peninsular Spanish as gestural blending - Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza
Phonology-morphology opacity in Harmonic Serialism: The case of /s/ aspiration in Spanish - Francesc Torres-Tamarit
Morphologically conditioned intervocalic rhotacism in Algherese Catalan: An account with lexically indexed constraints - Maria Cabrera-Callís
Muta cum liquida in the light of Tertenia Sardinian metathesis and compensatory lengthening Latin tr > Old French Vrr - Tobias Scheer
Schwa at the phonology/syntax interface - Michael L. Mazzola
Weight effects across verbal domains: The case of Spanish subjects - Roberto Mayoral Hernández and Asier AlcázarSyntax and Semantics
On truth persistence: A comparison between European Portuguese and Italian in relation to sempre - Patrícia Amaral and Fabio Del Prete
Pick some but not all alternatives! - Anamaria Fălăus
Polarity fronting in Romanian and Sardinian - Ion Giurgea and Eva-Maria Remberger
Degree quantification and scope in Puerto Rican Spanish - Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Melvin González-Rivera
‘Minimal link constraint’ violations: Move vs. Agree - Mihaela Marchis Moreno
On subjunctives and islandhood - Léna Baunaz and Genoveva Puskás
When control can’t be a fact - Lisa A. ReedHistorical Aspects
Prevocalic velar advancement in Chilean Spanish and Proto-Romance - Carolina González
The role of the copula in the diachronic development of focus constructions in Portuguese - Mary Aizawa Kato
The French wh interrogative system: Evolution and clefting - Sandrine Tailleur
On the relation between functional architecture and patterns of change in Romance object clitic syntax - Christina TortoraInteractions Across Dialects and Languages
Investigating the effects of perceptual salience and regional dialect on phonetic accommodation in Spanish - Bethany MacLeod
English questions, Spanish structure: A shared-structure account of interlinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition - Lisa Hsin
French oral proficiency assessment: Elicited imitation with speech recognition - Benjamin Millard and Deryle Lonsdale