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| Title: | 2+2=3 -- Stress in Munster Irish |
| Authors: | Grazyna Rowicka |
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| Length: | 20 |
| Abstract: | 2+2=3 -- Stress in Munster Irish ROA-116 20pp. munster.wp5 Grazyna Rowicka Leiden University / HIL Dept. of Linguistics Rowicka@rullet.LeidenUniv.nl Unlike the other dialects of Modern Irish, Munster Irish has developed a complex quantity-sensitive stress system. I argue that many intricacies of the system can be untangled when assuming a TRIMORAIC FOOT as the basic foot type of Munster Irish. Foot trimoraicity results from its double-branching: at the level of the foot as well as at the level of the foot head. I propose an OT analysis. Branching of the foot node follows from the familiar FOOT BINARITY constraint, whereas the branching of the foot head is demanded by a separate constraint HEAD BINARITY. Due to the domination of HEAD BIN over FOOT BIN bimoraic feet have branching heads, but do not branch themselves. The `main stress assignment' constraint selects a branching (i.e. trimoraic) foot as the head of the prosodic word, irrespective of its position within the word. NONINITIALITY and NONFINALITY favour a word-medial trimoraic foot for the location of the main stress. The paper will appear in H. Kardela and B. Szymanek (eds.) `Festschrift for Prof. E. Gussmann from his friends and colleagues', Lublin: KUL. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: |
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