StressTyp2

Pattern:

In words of all sizes, primary stress falls on the left-most superheavy syllable, else on the left-most heavy syllable, else on the initial syllable. There is secondary stress in the language, but it is not included here.

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.: (51) Excerpt not available.
Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.: Excerpt not available.

type: quantity-sensitive unbounded (qsub)

subtype: single

No theoretical analysis for this pattern.

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long_v: yes

No syllabic template information for this lect.

VV weight: 2

ViVj weight: 1

V weight: 0

1995 Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.

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.

51 no text

51: Major stress will fall on the first syllable containing a geminate cluster (i.e. long vowel), if none, then on the first syllable with a non-identical vowel cluster, ad if none, then on the first syllable ( Hyman 1977:51)

1967 Hohepa, P.W. (1967). A Profile Generative Grammar of Maori. In: International Journal of American Linguistics, Memoir 20.

Ngata, A (n.d.) Maori Grammar and Conversation. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs.

8: Main stress is initial. (Ngata n.d.:8)

ˈtangata man

ˈpapa a slab

ˈkukume to pull

ˈiwa nine

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