| ROA: | 131 |
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| Title: | Prosodic Faithfulness in Cupeno |
| Authors: | John Alderete |
| Comment: | In Elena Benedicto (ed.), University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 20, The UMOP on Indigenous Languages, pp., 1-27, Amherst, MA: GLSA. |
| Length: | 25 |
| Abstract: | This paper develops an Optimality Theoretic analysis of Cupeno accent. This analysis crucially depends on underlying specifications of prosody and constraints on faithfulness to underlying prosody. Input-Output prosodic faithfulness is necessary in accounting for distinctive stress in the inventory of accentual patterns observed in roots. Prosodic faithfulness is equally important in explaining the observation that root stress overrides affix stress; in fact, this observation is accounted for as a special case of the crosslinguistic tendency for roots to license a wider range of contrasts than affixes, an explanation that is not available to plausible alternatives. Finally, faithfulness to underlying prosody is shown to be crucial in describing a pattern of unbounded stress, essentially characterizing the intrinsic prominence of underlying accent. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Morphology,Phonology |
| Article: | Version 1 |