Opacité et transparence prosodique

Abstract

In this article, we focus on a small set of facts relating to stress in Arabic (Cairo, Damascus, bedouin dialect). McCarthy (2007) makes use of these facts (clear cases of opacity, according to him) to support view involving derivations (underlying structures and ordered rules or constraints) even inside Optimality Theory. In contrast with this approach, we aim at proving that derivations are truly dispensable and that a monostratal description is attainable. Our analysis comes within the framework of Declarative Phonology and it shows that stress placement is transparent and depends crucially on the nature and sonority of segment