| ROA: | 630 |
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| Title: | Morphological effects on default stress in novel Russian words |
| Authors: | Katherine Crosswhite, John Alderete, Tim Beasley, Vita Markman |
| Comment: | WCCFL 22 proceedings, ed. G. Garding and M. Tsujimura, pp. 151-164, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. |
| Length: | 14 |
| Abstract: | This article presents the results of a nonce-probe experiment conducted with 13 native speakers of Russian and examines the implications of these results for the linguistic analysis of Russian stress. Experimental items were novel words that ended in a sequence of segments either homophonous with a Russian case ending or not. Carrier sentences were manipulated to either morphosyntactically support a case-marked form or not. Results show a strong morphological effect: speakers stressed the last syllable of the stem, i.e., the ultima in words without inflections, and the antepenult or penult in words with inflections (depending on length of the inflection). This finding is relevant for linguistic analysis of Russian because it uncovers a default location for stress that is not abundantly apparent in the synchronic phonology. A new formal analysis is presented in Optimality Theory that makes crucial use of an interface constraint that governs the alignment of prosodic structure (stress) and morphology (the right edge of the stem), and the OT concepts of faithfulness and anti-faithfulness. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology,Morphology,Psycholinguistics |
| Article: | Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 |