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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 ...
KevinM . Ryan
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Syllable Weight in Old English Meter

Diachronica, 1994
SUMMARY Syllable weight in Old English meter is usually seen as a technicality involving rules of 'resolution' and 'suspension of resolution'. Because the patterns of syllable weight seem more arbitrary than other features of Old English meter, some metrists reject the concept altogether, and those who use it normally relegate it to a kind of ...
T. Cable
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Do English-Learning Infants use Syllable Weight to Determine Stress?

Language and Speech, 1995
A linguistic factor governing the assignment of English lexical stress is syllable weight. Heavy syllables which have either a long (tense) vowel or are closed with a consonant are heavy and automatically bear stress. Are infants sensitive to this aspect of the English stress system?
A E, Turk, P W, Jusczyk, L, Gerken
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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 and morphophonologically induced resyllabification in Maghrebi Arabic

2017
In the Arabic dialects of northwestern Africa (the Maghreb), restrictions on the acceptability of short vowels in light syllables have led to resyllabification phenomena whose details vary significantly from region to region (Stumme 1896; Marçais 1977).
Lameen Souag
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Syllable weight and natural duration in textsetting popular music in English

English Language and Linguistics, 2022
Hayes & Kaun (1996) argue that the mapping of syllables onto a metrical grid in textsetting is sensitive to natural duration, not just categorical weight (heavy or light).
Kevin M. Ryan
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Syllable weight in Amharic

2017
Hannah Sande, Andrew Hedding
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Syllable weight in Gothic

Indogermanische Forschungen, 2013
M. Pierce
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Syllable weight

2017
M. Gordon
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Paul Newman (ed.) (2017). Syllable weight in African languages. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 338.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. x + 219.

Phonology, 2020
This volume is a collection of twelve articles on the topic of syllable weight, drawing on mostly primary data from African languages. African languages have contributed enormously to the development of phonological theory over the decades (see e.g ...
Laura McPherson
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