Affiliation:
1. Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, Boylston Hall 317, Cambridge, MA 02138,
Abstract
A common approach to ternary VV > VC > V weight for stress involves coerced moraicity, by which codas are moraic only under stress, when no VV is available. As I show, coercion is untenable for about half of 17 such systems surveyed, and must be augmented by a theory of vowel prominence (e.g., VV-TO-STRESS). I further argue that vowel prominence is superior to a previously suggested solution in terms of coda prominence, which favors stress on syllables with (nonmoraic) codas.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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