Prosodic faithfulness and correspondence: Evidence from a Japanese argot

Faithfulness and Prosodic Circumscription

comments on this article, and to audiences at the University of Maryland (especially Luigi Burzio, Diamandis Gafos, Linda Lombardi, and Paul Smolensky), at the University of Tromsø (especially Patrik Bye, Mike Hammond, René Kager, Ove Lorentz, and Curt Rice), at the 1997 LSA Summer Institute (especially Tivoli Majors and Eric Bakoviƒ), and at a 1997 HIL course in Amsterdam (especially Harry van...

Prosodic Faithfulness in Cupeno

Faithfulness to Prosodic Heads*

ing away from the role of PARSE-SYLL in the results derived immediately above, the ranking arguments giving the partial metrical transparency result in Selayarese are summarized as follows. (59) Summary of Ranking Arguments •ALIGN-R (PrWd, {F}) » HEAD-DEP: Epenthesis does not yield preantepenultimate stress: sahalákku, not sá:halakku •HEAD-DEP » ALIGN-R (F, PrWd): Epenthesis into final syllable...

Faithfulness and Identity in Prosodic Morphology

2. Correspondence Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 The Role and Character of Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Some Constraints on Correspondent Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Correspondence Theory an...

Noun Faithfulness and Accent in Fukuoka Japanese

In the dialects of Japanese spoken in the city of Fukuoka, there are two ways in which the prosodic phonology of nouns differs from that of verbs and adjectives. First, verbs have an obligatory pitch accent, while nouns may be accented or unaccented. These dialects thus differ from dialects such as Tôkyô (McCawley 1968; Poser 1984), in which a word of any category may be either accented or unac...