Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics

Regular Spanish stress is stem-final, but many exceptions exist. Though exceptions must be accounted for, they must not yield ungrammaticality. The current proposal distinguishes exceptionality from ungrammaticality by arguing for some degree of quantity sensitivity in Spanish stress assignment. Past approaches that do not take syllable weight into account predict that a nonce input, like rapind-o , if marked as exceptional, will bear ungrammatical, antepenultimate stress (*rápindo). This propos