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| Title: | Non-finality and weight-sensitivity |
| Author: | Brett Hyde |
| Institution: | Washington University, St. Louis |
| Linguistic Field: | Linguistic Theories; Phonology |
| Abstract: | This article presents a non-finality approach to weight-sensitivity, using constraints that prohibit stress on domain-final moras to account for phenomena where stress avoids light syllables. The issues addressed by the proposal include weight-sensitivity in unbounded stress systems, weight-sensitivity in generalised trochee systems, iambic lengthening, trochaic lengthening and minimal word restrictions. A non-finality approach improves the typological predictions for each of these phenomena and provides them with a general and uniform account, lending additional support for non-finality's central position in the theory. |
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This article appears in Phonology Vol. 24, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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