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Lect:
Luiseño
latitude,longitude:
33,-117.5
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 2 ] Sources [ 3 ] Words [ 3 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
?/I;?/S
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
No informationNo information
 ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Luiseño) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 1 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
long_v: yes
syllable_template: CV(V)

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1977 Hyman, Larry. 1977. On the nature of linguistic stress. Studies in stress and accent: Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4 ed. by Larry Hyman. Los Angeles: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Southern California.
70: Stress is usually initial, but when a suffix is added to a bisyllabic stem, stress jumps one syllable to the right to coincide with the stem boundary. (Hyman 1977:70)
1990 Munro, P. (1990). Stress and Vowel Length in Cupan Absolute Nouns. IJAL 56:2, 217-250.
224: If there is a long vowel in either the first or the second syllable, stress it. If not, stress the second syllable in nouns, or stress the first in verbs. (Munro 1990:224)
1960 Kroeber, A.L. & G.W. Grace (1960). The Sparkman Grammar of Luiseno. University of California Publications in Linguistics 16.
ˈhuːnal badger
puˈhuː his arrow
qaˈruːt bird