Metrical structure in Scottish Gaelic: tonal accent, glottalisation and overlength
Metrical structure in Scottish Gaelic: tonal accent, glottalisation and overlength
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苏格兰盖尔语的格律结构：声调重音、声门化和超长
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10.1017/s0952675719000204
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发表时间：
2019
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1.3
通讯作者：
D. A. Morrison
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作者：
D. A. Morrison
苏格兰盖尔语通过声调重音、声门化或过长，在不同的方言中表现出语音对比。根据现有对瑞典语、丹麦语、弗兰科尼亚语和爱沙尼亚语等语言中相似对立词的分析，我认为这种对比反映了格律结构上的差异。运用层次优选论的框架，我认为这种韵律对比是源于对脚部结构的忠诚，这种结构在词干水平上是有规律的，但由于随后的语音过程而变得不透明。因此，苏格兰盖尔语代表了深层对比韵律结构历时发展的中间阶段。这一分析成功地解释了svarabhakti的复杂性质，这是一种抄袭插入语的过程，与所讨论的语音对比密切相关，并揭示了北欧各种语言中声调重音、声门化和过长之间的对立关系。
Scottish Gaelic displays a phonological contrast that is realised in different dialects by means of tonal accent, glottalisation or overlength. In line with existing analyses of similar oppositions in languages such as Swedish, Danish, Franconian and Estonian, I show that this contrast reflects a difference in metrical structure. Using the framework of Stratal Optimality Theory, I argue that this metrical contrast is derived, and results from faithfulness to foot structure that is built regularly at the stem level, but rendered opaque by subsequent phonological processes. Scottish Gaelic therefore represents an intermediate stage in the diachronic development of underlyingly contrastive metrical structure. This analysis successfully accounts for the complex properties of svarabhakti, a process of copy epenthesis that is intimately connected to the phonological contrast in question, and also sheds light upon the relationship between the oppositions of tonal accent, glottalisation and overlength found in various languages of northern Europe.