| ROA: | 844.06 |
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| Title: | Towards a uniform account of prominence-sensitive stress |
| Authors: | Brett Hyde |
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| Length: | 47 |
| Abstract: | Although various phenomena are often included under the general heading of prominence-sensitive stress, weight sensitivity and sonority sensitivity are the canonical examples. In weight-sensitive systems, stress is attracted to syllables with a greater number of moras at the expense of syllables with a lesser number. In sonority-sensitive systems, stress is attracted to syllables containing vowels of greater sonority at the expense of syllables containing vowels of lesser sonority. In this article, I will first develop an analysis of weight sensitivity, and then I will extend the analysis to sonority sensitivity. The aim is to provide a general and uniform account of both phenomena. Note: this is a chapter of ROA-844, Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology |
| Article: | Version 1 |