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| Title: | Rhythm and Feet in Belhare Morphology |
| Authors: | Balthasar Bickel |
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| Length: | 34 |
| Abstract: | Rhythm and Feet in Belhare Morphology Balthasar Bickel University of California at Berkeley & University of Zurich In Belhare (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal), consonant prothesis at morpheme boundaries and deletion of stem 'augments' is found if either metrical or morphological parsing would violate the bimoraic trochee pattern that underlies the stress system of the language. This finding corroborates Dresher & Lahiri's (1991) "Principle of Metrical Coherence" and provides new evidence for the cross-linguistic applicability of Crowhurst's (1994) "Tauto-morphemic Foot" constraint. The data also support a view of the Prosodic Hierarchy as weakly layered, allowing consonants to be directly dominated by the foot or word node if they are prothetic and do not therefore need feature licensing within the syllable canon. |
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| Article: | Version 1 |