| Description |
Bolognese, the language native to Bologna, Italy, exhibits a stress pattern that is mostly predictable, and tends to be word-final. This pattern becomes more interesting when it interacts with other phonotactic and morphophonological constraints. The two most prominent influences that cause stress to not be word-final are: epenthetic vowels, inserted to repair illicit coda clusters, and suffixal attachments that indicate inflectional information like gender and number. Building on Rubin and Kaplan's (to appear) analysis of epenthesis in Bolognese, I create an Optimality Theoretic analysis that accounts for these influences on Bolognese stress. |
