Uniform Exponence: Exemplification and Extension



Michael Kenstowicz

MIT





This paper exemplifies the constraint of Uniform Exponence. We see 
 how this constraint elucidates an otherwise mysterious double 
 retraction of stress in certain plural formations in Russian and the 
 scope of an allomorphy process in Dominican Spanish. In the body of 
 the paper we see how a simple typology of stress in five Australian 
 languages is available when Uniform Exponence for the stress of roots 
 and affixes is variably ranked with Alignment and Lapse constraints 
 on good metrical form. The final section of the paper suggests an 
 extension of the notion uniformity to the effect of a lexical item 
 on its context.