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What is the domain for weight computation: the syllable or the interval?

Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2014
<p>The distribution of lexical stress is sensitive to the weight of rhythmic units such that heavier units more strongly attract stress. This paper addresses the question: what is the rhythmic unit relevant for weight computation? The traditional approach links weight to the <em>syllable</em>: weight is computed over the syllable rime
Aron Hirsch
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The computation of weight in Portuguese: syllables and intervals

, 2021
Probabilistic approaches have changed the maxim of categoricity often assumed in phonological analyses. With more statistical power, we are now able to perform more comprehensive and detailed analyses, which in turn help us adjust our own theoretical assumptions.
Guilherme D. Garcia
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Buriat Syllable Weight and Head Prominence

, 1994
In this paper I argue for a violable optimality-theoretic constraint penalizing branching constituency in moras. I examine this constraint in relation to a problem in Buriat syllable structure in which a consonant appears in a position normally reserved for the second vocalic member of a nucleus but does not contribute to syllable weight.
Rachel Walker
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Syllable Weight and the Phonetics/Phonology Interface

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1997
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997)
Matthew Gordon
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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 Hogoboom
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A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight [PDF]

Language, 2002
The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the phonetically best distinctions are those which divide syllables into groups that are phonetically most distinct from each other.
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Acoustic and linguistic influences on rise-time modulations in natural English speech: evidence from a sensorimotor synchronization paradigm [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Modulations of amplitude rise-time are considered fundamental to speech rhythm. However, rise-time is a holistic measure of the waveform shape and, as such, may be influenced by a variety of factors, potentially obscuring relationships between speech ...
Chia-Yuan Lin, Tamara Rathcke
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Syllable Weight in Some Australian Languages

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2011
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp.
Stuart Davis
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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.
Shih-chi Stella Yeh
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Metathesis, syllable weight and stress in Sevillian Spanish [PDF]

Phonology
Abstract This study investigates how stress and metathesis interact in Sevillian Spanish, focusing on how their interaction sheds light on representation. Metathesis affects /s/–voiceless stop sequences, moving a debuccalised coda /s/ to the release of the following stop ( →
Madeline Gilbert
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