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Syllable Weight Gradation in the Luwic Languages [PDF]

Transactions of the Philological Society, 2020
AbstractThis paper offers a new perspective on Čop's Law and Open Syllable Lengthening, two commonly accepted sound laws that lengthened both consonants and vowels in the Luwic languages. It is proposed that both developments take similar inputs and ultimately yield the same effect: neutralisation of the syllable weight opposition in accented (stressed)
Alexander Vertegaal
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Antepenultimate stress in Spanish: In defense of syllable weight and grammatically-informed analogy

Glossa, 2018
Spanish has a contrastive stress system with three major possibilities: antepenultimate, penultimate, and final stress. While penultimate and final stress are to some extent predictable, a major point of contention in the literature is whether ...
Martín Fuchs
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Onsets Contribute to Syllable Weight: Statistical Evidence from Stress and Meter [PDF]

, 2014
While some accounts of syllable weight deny a role for onsets, onset-sensitive weight criteria have received renewed attention in recent years (e.g. Gordon 2005, Topintzi 2010).
Ryan, Kevin M
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Quantity-sensitive stress and syllable weight in Paiwan [PDF]

Acta Linguistica Academica, 2017
This study reexamines the assignment of stress in the Paiwan language spoken in several central Paiwan villages, which differs from the other communalects in treating the central vowel, schwa /ə/, as a weak element with regards to the syllable and stress.
S. Yeh
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Syllable weight and duration: A rhyme/intervals comparison

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2017
Steriade (2012) proposed intervals as a more appropriate syllable weight domain than rhymes. This study explores how interval weight cashes out as duration across word positions and compares this to a rhyme-based account. The data reported on in Lunden (2013), from native speakers of Norwegian (a language in which (C)VC syllables are heavy only non ...
Anya Lunden
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Syllable weight and tone in Mara Bantu languages [PDF]

, 2017
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Lotta Aunio
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A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight [PDF]

Language, 2002
syllables into groups that are phonetically most distinct from each other. Phonologically complex distinctions are those which exceed an upper threshold in the number of phonological predicates to which they refer. It is claimed that languages adopt weight distinctions that are phonetically most effective without being overly complex phonologically ...
M. Gordon
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The paradox of Portuguese /Vr/-rhymes: Disentangling weight from length via structure-based sonority

Glossa, 2023
The assumption that Portuguese stress is weight-sensitive is supported by strong arguments. However, oxytones ending with open syllables remain a major problem for this claim, unless vowels can be independently proved to be heavy without being long.
Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
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Tonologie du mandinka du Pakaawu

Mandenkan, 2020
This article describes the tonal system of Pakaawu Mandinka. This Manding variety is characterized by the importance of syllable weight in the conditioning of tonal phenomena, and by systematic tonal alternations affecting the last syllable of words that
Denis Creissels
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Applying Classification Trees to Stress Patterns of Japanese Loanwords in English

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2023
This paper provides an analysis of the stress patterns of loanwords of Japanese origin in English. The ctree function of the party package in R is used to create classification trees.
Bradley Lunsford
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