Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré

This paper looks in detail at stress assignment in the Bolivian isolate language Yurakaré, one of the few processes in the language that require the phonological-word (p-word) as its domain of application. In terms of stress assignment, the p-word in Yurakaré interacts not only with the morphological component, but also with the syntactic component. Moreover, morphological interference with the prosodic component seems to start below the level of the p-word. I argue that these complex, conditional mappings can be thought of as either structurally conditioned diachronic remnants of grammaticalized items or as functionally motivated peculiarities. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-014-9238-8 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-99716 Accepted Version Originally published at: Van Gijn, Rik (2014). Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré. Morphology, 24(3):223-244. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-014-9238-8 Morphology (2014) 24:223–244 DOI 10.1007/s11525-014-9238-8 Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré