L'excepcionalitat sil·làbica de s: de Fabra als nostres dies

• Autores: Maria-Rosa Lloret
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Nº. 22, 2008, págs. 265-292
• Idioma: catalán
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• Resumen

  • The role of the syllable in phonological theory has become crucial since the early Prague School. Evidence for the organization of a phonological string into syllables -or sonority peaks- according to the degree of sonority of segments and the characteristic rising-falling sonority profile is plentiful; however, phonologists from different perspectives agree that the "exceptional" behavior of sibilant fricatives (especially s) with respect to syllabification, which may create a sonority reversal (as in the coda -[kst] in text), is disruptive and try to explain this oddity through alternative measures of sonority or some version of extrasyllabicity. In this paper we overview this long-lasting problem for all major theoretical frameworks, focusing on the phonology of Catalan and on the way this issue has been dealt with in the Catalan literature from early Fabra's Praguean work through modern generative approaches including autosegmental and metrical phonology to recent optimality-theory views.