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Syllable Weight in African Languages
Edited by Paul Newman
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 338] 2017
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Chapter 5
Syllabic weight in Tashlhiyt Berber

Article outline
  • 1.Preliminaries
  • 2.The H/L distinction
    • 2.1Syllable weight in traditional songs
    • 2.2Orthometric syllabification vs. grammatical syllabification
  • 3.The evidence for a moraic analysis of the H/L contrast
    • 3.1Verse feet in ‘straight’ meters
    • 3.2Templatic plurals
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 April 2017
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