| ROA: | 47 |
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| Title: | Constraint Interaction in Aranda Stress |
| Authors: | Toyomi Takahashi |
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| Length: | 29 |
| Abstract: | Constraint interaction in Aranda stress ROA-47 aranda.wp6 Toyomi Takahashi Faculty of Cultural Information Resources Surugadai University 698 Azu, Hanno, Saitama, 357, Japan e-mail: VYB00233@niftyserve.or.jp A peculiarity of Aranda, spoken in Central Australia, is that stress placement appears sensitive to the presence/absence of an onset as well as to the number of syllables in the word. In this paper I put forward the claim that the violation of the constraint ONSET may be significant not only at the level of the syllable but also at higher levels of the prosodic hierarchy - i.e. ONSET (Syll), ONSET (Ft), ONSET (PrWd). Specifically, I propose that ONSET (Ft) plays an important role in Aranda stress, and I demonstrate how this constraint interacts with others such as FtBin, Lx=PrWd, and Align to provide a full account of the idiosyncrasies of this stress system. *File Note: this file is found in compressed from in papers/ZIP and papers/COMPRESSED. NB: The file arandawp6.zip is 1/6 the length of the original aranda.wp6 |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Version 1 |