Zuraw, K., Yu, K.M. and Orfitelli, R. (2014) The word-level prosody of Samoan. Phonology, 31 (02). pp. 271-327. ISSN 0952-6757
Abstract
This paper documents and analyses stress and vowel length in Samoan words. The domain of footing, the Prosodic Word, appears to be a root and cohering suffixes; prefixes and most disyllabic suffixes form a separate domain. Vowel sequences that disrupt the normal stress pattern require constraints matching sonority prominence to metrical prominence, sensitive to degree of mismatch and to the number of vowels involved. Two suffixes unexpectedly have an idiosyncratic footing constraint, observable only in a limited set of words. We also discuss trochaic shortening and its asymmetrical productivity, and the marginal contrastiveness of some features in loans. While Samoan does not appear to be typologically unusual, it does offer arguments (i) in favour of alignment constraints on Prosodic Words rather than only on feet directly, and (ii) against simple cyclicity. Some of the strongest evidence comes from stress patterns of the rich inventory of phonotactically licit vowel sequences.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Cambridge University Press. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2016 15:16 |
Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2020 10:45 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095267571400013X |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S095267571400013X |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97342 |