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# Oral Presentation for "Contrastive vowel length: How layered feet and uneven trochees interact"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Torres-Tamarit, Francesc (2021).
  Oral Presentation for "Contrastive vowel length: How layered feet and uneven trochees interact".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Presentation. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481300


Corresponding Author:
  Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, francescjosep.torres@gmail.com


License:
  CC0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481300



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## Summary

This talk was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the [39th meeting of the West Coast
Conference on Formal Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/).  
  
Provided abstract:  
Contrastive vowel length (CVL) in northern Italo-Romance is metrically-
governed and implicationally distributed. CVL in proparoxytones implies CVL in
paroxytones, but not the other way around. Likewise, CVL in paroxytones
implies CVL in oxytones, but not vice versa. This paper develops a foot-based
OT analysis of CVL that combines layered feet with uneven trochees. The
analysis adequately predicts the implicational distribution of CVL and
discards unattested patterns.



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/

This presentation is part of the 2021 West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics collection, which is available here:
https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401