Underapplication of vowel reduction to schwa in Majorcan Catalan. Some evidence for the left syllable of the stem as a prominent position and for subparadigms

In this paper I propose a formal interpretation for a set of anomalies in the Majorcan Catalan (MC) vowel system. This set is made up of cases where vowels exhibit atypical behavior, in that where we would expect to find a schwa ([�]) due to a general process of vowel reduction of the mid front vowels [e] and [�] and the open central vowel [a] in