Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority: A Unified Theory of WeightThis volume proposes a unified weight theory that challenges traditionally held beliefs regarding the vowel/consonant dichotomy inherent in moraicity and illuminates many previously intractable issues. |
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add a mora analysis aspirated stops BEMORAIC candidate chapter closed syllables coda consonants coerced weight coercive moraic markedness consonant moraicity constraint against adding constraint against moraic constraint ranking constraint requiring DEPLINK dialects distinctive consonant weight distinctive length distinctive moraicity distinctive vowel length distinctive weight environment epenthesis fatally violates FTBIN geminates high vowels higher-ranked constraint Hungarian Icelandic input intervocalic consonant Kashmiri Khalkha Mongolian language lengthen long vowels low front vowel low vowels MAXLINK MAXLINK-MORA[CON MAXLINK-MORA[SEG2 medial Metropolitan New York mid vowels Modern Standard Italian monomoraic MORA[CON MORA[HIGH MORA[LOW MORA[SEG1 MORA[VOC moraic association moraic consonants moraic faithfulness constraints moraic markedness constraints moraic markedness hierarchy obstruents optimal penults phonological preaspiration predicted prosodic result segment types short vowel shown stressed syllables surface as long surface as moraic syllable weight tableau trimoraic underlying morae underlyingly moraic universal moraic markedness violates the constraint voiceless stops WBYP York English σ σ