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Lect:
Yupik, St. Lawrence Island; Central Siberian
latitude,longitude:
63.4,-170.2
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 4 ] Sources [ 4 ] Words [ 15 ]
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 (Yupik, St. Lawrence Island) ≥1 syllable exceptional

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Syllable Parameters [ 3 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
closed_syll: yes
geminates: yes
long_v: yes
syllable_template: (C)V(V)(C)

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
240-242: All long vowels are stressed plus the even numbered syllables of a light syllable string. Word final syllables are not stressed. (Hayes 1995:240-242)
1975 Krauss, M. (1975). St Lawrence Island Eskimo Phonology and orthography. Linguistics 152, 39-72
1984 Jacobson, S.A. (1984). The stress conspiracy and stress repelling bases in Central Yupik and Siberian Yupik Eskimo languages. IJAL 50:3, 312-324.
318: Stress heavy syllables and alternates thereafter except the last. Initial vowels are lengthened if failing to do so would mean a stress shift from stem to suffix. Even syllables in light syllable strings are also stressed. (Jacobson 1984:318)
1985 Jacobson, S.A. (1985). Siberian Yupik and Central Yupik Prosody. In: M. Krauss (ed.) Yupik Eskimo Prosodic Systems: Descriptive and Comparative Studies. Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks. 25-46.
aŋˈyaχɬaχˈɬaŋyuxtuq he wants to make a big boat
ˈaːŋqaχˈɬaχɬaŋˈyuxtuq he wants to make a big ball
ˈŋaːŋa his mother
aˈtaːta uncle
ˈtuːˈnaːɣaː he'll give it
ˈaatqaqa it is my name
ˈaangelˈlequq it will be big
aˈtelguuq he has a name
kina who
pinguq he gets something
sallek broken ice
qaˈyani qaˈyaːni his own kayak
saˈɤuˈyaːni saˈɤuːˈyaːni in his [another's] drum
qaˈyaːni qaˈyaːːni in his [another's] drum
ategh ˈaatqaqa it is my name