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Non-finality and weight-sensitivity*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2007

Brett Hyde
Brett Hyde
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Washington University in St Louis
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Abstract

This article presents a non-finality approach to weight-sensitivity, using constraints that prohibit stress on domain-final moras to account for phenomena where stress avoids light syllables. The issues addressed by the proposal include weight-sensitivity in unbounded stress systems, weight-sensitivity in generalised trochee systems, iambic lengthening, trochaic lengthening and minimal word restrictions. A non-finality approach improves the typological predictions for each of these phenomena and provides them with a general and uniform account, lending additional support for non-finality's central position in the theory.

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Phonology , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , August 2007 , pp. 287 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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