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Lect:
Hixkaryána (ST1)
latitude,longitude:
-1,-59
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 3 ] Sources [ 3 ] Words [ 3 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
NMS
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary Left, right EM, QS, iambic, iterative ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Hixkaryána) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 2 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
br_onsets: yes
closed_syll: yes
syllable_template: (C)CV(C)

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
206-207: Stress in Hixkaryana falls on heavy syllables and on the nonfinal even members of a string of light syllables. Stressed short vowels in nonfinal open syllables are lengthened. Main stress appears to be utterly independent of metrical structure and depends instead on the intonation pattern. Derbyshire (1985:182) lists five intonation contours; in four of them main stress falls on the final syllable, in the remaining one, it falls on the penult. (Hayes 1995:206-207)
1985 Derbyshire, D.C. (1985). Hixkaryana and Linguistic Typology. SIL Publications in Linguistics 76. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas.
1979 Derbyshire, Desmond. 1979. Hixkaryana. Lingua Descriptive Studies 1. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
mɨˈhaːnaˈnɨhno you taught him
ˈowtoˈhoːna to the village
ˈkaːna fish