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Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022Edited by Jorrig Vogels and Sterre Leufkens
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 39] 2022
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Edited by Jorrig Vogels and Sterre Leufkens
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 39] 2022
► pp. 103–121
Moras are about length not about weight
Cayuga laryngeal metathesis, Chugach Alutiiq degemination and Wolof stress
Expressing syllable weight by moras leads to two problems. First, there are languages, such as Wolof, with long vowels and geminates, which both make a syllable bimoraic, but where only long vowels, but not geminates, count as heavy for stress. Second, there are languages in which closed syllables are light for stress, but heavy for segmental modifications (laryngeal metathesis in Cayuga and degemination in Chugach Alutiiq). It is argued that a two-layered mora model is not required and that a straightforward Harmonic Serialism is able to directly express that laryngeal metathesis and degemination make an unstressed syllable light.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Laryngeal metathesis in Cayuga and degemination in Chugach Alutiiq
- 3.Stress, long vowels and long consonants: The case of Wolof
- 4.A unified Harmonic Serialism solution
- 5.Conclusion
- Notes
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