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This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith on skeuomorphy and refunctionalization. It also includes eleven contributions by reputed scholars on topics ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphophonology, dialectology, sociolinguistics and language variation. Formal phonology papers favor the model of Optimality Theory, while phonetic measurem.

Romance languages --- Linguistics

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Dialectology --- Phonetics --- Romance languages

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The target of investigation in the present study is the class of psychological predicates exemplified by gustar; this class demonstrates unique mapping properties that render it especially problematical and perplexing for English speakers acquiring Spanish as a second language and likewise vulnerable to alteration in contact and contracting varieties of Spanish. In the experiment reported herein, heritage Spanish speakers are shown to accept and produce particular non-target psychological predicate constructions. Their behavior is interpreted as revealing two 'optimization' strategies-Map the animate argument to the structural subject position and the inanimate argument to the structural object; and dedicate the preverbal position to the structural subject-which render the mapping more transparent.

Romance languages --- Linguistics --- Langues romanes --- Congresses. --- Congrès

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Romance languages --- Langues romanes --- Congresses --- Congrès --- -Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Congresses. --- -Congresses --- Congrès

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Studies In Romance Languages (Publications In Language Sciences)

Romance languages. --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects