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Syllable onsets as a factor in stress rules: the case of Mathimathi revisited*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2010

Susanne Gahl
Susanne Gahl
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University of California, Berkeley
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Theories of stress assignment commonly assume that syllable onsets do not determine a syllable's ability to attract stress. In the frameworks of McCarthy (1979) and Hayes (1981, 1995), for example, only the rhyme is projected in order to determine the weight of a syllable. In Moraic Theory (Hyman 1985), onsets do not contribute to the weight of a syllable as a consequence of the Onset Creation rule, by which onsets lose their weightbearing unit. In the framework of Hayes (1989), the rule of Weight-by-Position ensures that only coda consonants can ever be weight-bearing.

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Phonology , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , December 1996 , pp. 329 - 344
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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