Quality‐Sensitive Stress

Kenstowicz, Michael

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“…Universal sonority hierarchy (Kenstowicz 1997:162, de Lacy 2002 low peripheral > mid peripheral > high peripheral > mid central > high central Peripheral vowels are more sonorous than central ones, and within those groups lower vowels are more sonorous than higher ones. Of all known sonority-driven stress systems, Gujarati is probably the most well described case with distinctions among peripheral vowels (de Lacy 2004:193).…”

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Sonority-Driven Stress does not Exist

Shih

2016

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This paper presents new acoustic evidence against sonority-driven stress in Gujarati. Gujarati has been the subject of more stress descriptions than any other sonority-driven stress case, and is one of the very few where stress is reported to be sensitive to multiple sonority levels. However, all these impressionistic descriptions of Gujarati stress disagree with each other in significant ways. In contrast, this paper presents the results of a production experiment. Acoustic measurements show that [a] does not attract stress away from the default position; instead, stress consistently falls on the penultimate syllable. If such a well-described case as Gujarati does not have sonority-driven stress, it is possible that none of the other cases do either, challenging Kenstowicz (1997)'s and de Lacy (2002 et seq.)'s theories that metrical structure can be sensitive to sonority. If so, the lack of such stress systems presents a challenge to the phonological property of symmetric effect found in a number of theories.

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“…A 'sonority-driven' stress system is one where the relative sonority of syllabic nuclei helps determines the optimal stress-bearing unit; the universal sonority hierarchy is given in (1) (Kenstowicz 1997, de Lacy 2002, 2007.…”

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Sonority-Driven Stress does not Exist

Shih

2016

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“…Conversely, vowels of relatively high sonority tend to attract stress. Sources where these phenomena are put into a theoretical perspective are De Lacy (2002Lacy ( , 2004Lacy ( , 2006 and Kenstowicz (1997Kenstowicz ( , 2004. One of the constraints formulated in the generative theory of stress is the following (cf.…”

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The phonological representation of the Limburgian tonal accents

Hermans¹,

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Noske³

2012

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“…Thus, Zoll 1997 and Walker 1996 employ opposing Alignment constraints formulated to contrast different syllable types, i.e., heavy versus light; Baković 1998 approaches the problem in terms of constraint conflict between Alignment constraints defined at different levels of metrical structure (cf. Prince 1983); and similar constraint rankings are used in Kenstowicz 1995b, Hewitt & Crowhurst 1996, and Crowhurst & Hewitt 1997. For concreteness, I follow Baković 1998 in distinguishing among levels of metrical structure, which I refer to here as stress prominence and stress peaks, and model the conflicting edge effects as a similar type of constraint interaction.…”

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Morphologically Governed Accent in Optimality Theory

Alderete¹

2013

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All Rights Reserved iii NEAR KLAMATHWe stand around the burning oil drum and we warm ourselves, our hands and faces, in its pure lapping heat.We raise steaming cups of coffee to our lips and we drink it with both hands. But we are salmon fisherman. And now we stamp our feet on the snow and rocks and move upstream, slowly, full of love, toward the still pools.-Raymond Carver, Fires iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This was the first time that I worked on a project of this size and scope and I am indebted to the members of my committee, John McCarthy, Lisa Selkirk, John Kingston, and Bob Rothstein, for their guidance and support throughout the endeavor. I am also grateful to Alan Prince, who, while not a formal member of the committee, went beyond his role as a consultant and provided many important comments on all aspects of this thesis. I found it tremendously encouraging to sit across from these linguists and find that they had put aside the time to read and respond cogently to the bulky materials stuffed in their boxes. Thank you for allowing me the space to develop my ideas, slowing me down when I was rushing, and sweating the details when I no longer could.I would also like to express my gratitude to all those who have contributed over the years to my professional and intellectual development. There is a long road between putting together a good homework solution and writing a dissertation, and the support I received from my committee and the larger faculty at UMass was essential to my arriving at where I am today. Many others aside from the committee have helped me come to understand myself as a linguist, but those at the forefront of my mind include Emmon Bach, Roger Higgins, Angelika Kratzer, and Ellen Woolford, and also my teachers and advisors at UC Santa Cruz, Junko Itô, Sandra Chung, and Bill Ladusaw.The idea that served as the point of departure for this thesis, namely that the accentual properties of roots play a major role in governing word accent, was first hit upon in the summer of 1995 in the weekly brown bag meetings of John McCarthy's NSF grant. I am grateful to John for providing that environment, and for the creative input and expert advice of the participants of those meetings, including Jill Beckman, Laura Benua, Amalia Gnanadesikan, Suzanne Urbanczyk, and in later years, Toni Borowsky, Patrik Bye, Katy Carlson, Paul De Lacy, Mark Harvey, Anna Lubowicz, Caroline Jones, Jennifer Smith, and Rachel Walker. Other opportunities for presenting my research contributed greatly to the preparation of this thesis, including a series of informal meetings at Rutgers and MIT, and invited talks at Cornell University, SUNY Stoney Brook, University of British Columbia, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Victoria. Thanks to the audiences of these gatherings for their helpful comments and questions.Like most dissertations in linguistics, the argumentation developed in this one revolves around the presentation of evidence, and I would like to thank the language experts and consultants who helped in the colle...

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Quality‐Sensitive Stress

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Sonority-Driven Stress does not Exist

Sonority-Driven Stress does not Exist

The phonological representation of the Limburgian tonal accents

Morphologically Governed Accent in Optimality Theory

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