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Newman, Paul: Syllable Weight in African Languages

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2017
Abbie Hantgan-Sonko
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Metathesis, syllable weight and stress in Sevillian Spanish

Phonology
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 ...
Madeline Gilbert
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Yurok Syllable Weight

International Journal of American Linguistics, 2003
This paper examines syllable weight in Yurok, a highly endangered Algic language of northwestern California. A productive truncation process has only a two‐way weight contrast between light and heavy syllables, shortening nouns to a bimoraic word minimum, CVV or CVC.
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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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