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Epenthesis and syllable weight

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1995
A standard assumption in the moraic theory of syllable weight is that a syllable must contain at least one mora, which is usually associated with a vowel. This paper presents arguments and evidence against this assumption. The evidence is drawn primarily from the behavior of epenthetic syllables in Mohawk and Iraqi Arabic with brief reference to ...
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Syllable weight in Gothic

Indogermanische Forschungen, 2013
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Chapter 1: Syllable weight

1985
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Syllable weight: convergence of phonology and phonetics

Phonology, 1997
In some languages, syllable weight depends exclusively on vowel length, while in others, coda consonants add weight to syllables. In this paper we assume that syllable weight is reflected in moraic structure, and that weight-bearing coda consonants are the exclusive dependents of a mora, while weightless consonants share a mora with the preceding vowel.
Ellen Broselow, Su-I Chen, Marie Huffman
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Newman, Paul: Syllable Weight in African Languages

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2017
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Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics

Phonology, 2011
Homeric Greek, Kalevala Finnish, Old Norse and Middle Tamil are all languages in which weight is claimed to be exclusively binary in the poetic metrics. As I demonstrate through corpus studies of these traditions, the poets were sensitive to additional grades of weight, such that finely articulated continua of syllable weight can be inferred from ...
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Acoustic and perceptual correlates of syllable weight

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005
Differences between languages in the stress-attracting properties of various syllable types (syllable weight) are associated with phonetic differences. Certain languages that preferentially stress CVC syllables (i.e., treat CVC as heavy) fail to display substantial vowel shortening in CVC, unlike languages that treat CVC as non-stress-attracting or ...
Matthew Gordon, Carmen Jany, Carlos Nash
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Weight sensitivity and syllable codas in Srinagar Koshur

Journal of Linguistics, 2012
This paper describes and analyses the pattern of word stress found in the standard dialect of Koshur (Kashmiri) spoken in Srinagar. The significance of Koshur for studies of stress lies in that taken together, its pattern of stress assignment and a pervasive pattern of syncope conspire to produce a four-way syllable weight distinction that has ...
SADAF MUNSHI, MEGAN J. CROWHURST
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Syllable Weight, Prosody, and Meter in Old English

Diachronica, 1994
SUMMARY Nearly all recent studies of Old English prosody have argued that main stress is fixed by phonological rules which make reference to syllable weight. We claim that such arguments are wrong, partly because they depend on still dubious assumptions about the scansion of Old English verse, and partly because the hypotheses they construct violate ...
Donka Minkova, Robert P. Stockwell
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Syllable weight in African languages

2017
Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept is critical to our understanding of complex phenomena in
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