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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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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 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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English monosyllables and syllable weight

2018
Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht einen Überblick über die möglichen Veränderungen im Silbengewicht der englischen einsilbigen Wörter zu vermitteln. Obwohl die englische Sprache dazu neigte, zunehmend monosyllabisch zu werden, besonders nach dem Schwa-Schwund in der zweiten Hälfte des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts (Minkova 1991), wie bereits von Jespersen ...
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Syllable weight as a phonological variable

2017
Abstract This is an abridged version of a paper originally published over forty years ago (Newman 1972). It is being reprinted here because of its significance in the history of phonological theory and its contribution to African linguistics.
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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 ...
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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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Developmental weighting shifts for noise components of fricative-vowel syllables

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1997
Previous studies have convincingly shown that the weight assigned to vocalic formant transitions in decisions of fricative identity for fricative-vowel syllables decreases with development. Although these same studies suggested a developmental increase in the weight assigned to the noise spectrum, the role of the aperiodic-noise portions of the signals
S, Nittrouer, M E, Miller
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