Explaining Kashaya Infixation

Optimal Iambs in Kashaya

This paper presents the three major ways that iambs play a role in Kashaya phonology: iambic lengthening, reshuffling of vowel length, and location of stress. Contrasting analyses of the phenomena are given in an ordered-rule Lexical Phonology approach and in constraint-based Optimality Theory. It is shown that only a nonderivational approach based on surface constraints succeeds in unifying th...

Kashaya Extrametricality and Formal Symmetry

Kager (2012), Martínez-Paricio & Kager (2013), and Martínez-Paricio (2013) — collectively MPK — propose the layered feet ((σσ)σ) and (σ(σσ)) to account for a variety of phenomena, including stress windows, mixed binary and ternary alternations, and extrametricality. Although many metrical theories do not accommodate left-edge extrametricality, they use constraints that are almost entirely symme...

Global Effects in Kashaya Prosodic Structure

• Kashaya stress patterns – interactions with morphological structure • Lexical Phonology and a cross-level effect – dividing the process in half with ordered operations • a global approach in OT – Classic OT and Constraint Domains • approaches in Stratal OT – dividing the process in half (again) – a global effect in syllabification – phonologically conditioned stem allomorphy • Distributed Mor...

Syntax and Prosody in Kashaya Phrasal Accent

This paper explores the nature of prosodic phrasing in Kashaya, an endangered language of northern California, as diagnosed by the location of accent. Previous work has reported that iambic feet are constructed across prosodic phrases that can consist of multiple words, but there has been little research into how these pphrases interact with syntactic constituency. We propose an alignment analy...

The semantics of Yurok Intensive infixation*