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Lect:
Unami
latitude,longitude:
39.8,-75
Patterns [ 8 ] Attributes Syllables [ 6 ] Sources [ 6 ] Words [ 11 ]
Pattern:
SPC: i(H',LX')L, no 1R
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Prose Analysis [ 4 ] Attributes [ 1 ] Theoretical Analysis Computational Analysis Lects [ 3 ]

In words with 3 or more syllables, secondary stress occurs on on all heavy syllables. In sequences of light syllables, secondary stress falls on the even numbered syllables, counting from the left edge of the sequence. Secondary stress does not fall on the final syllable.

Goddard, Ives. 1979. Delaware Verbal Morphology. Garland Publishing, New York.
Excerpt not available.
Goddard, Ives. 1982. The Historical Phonology of Munsee. International Journal of American Linguistics 48. 16-48.
Excerpt not available.
Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.
Excerpt not available.
Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(211) Excerpt not available.
type: quantity-sensitive bounded (qsb)

No theoretical analysis for this pattern.

FSA tail

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Syllable Parameters [ 3 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight [ 2 ]
closed_syll: yes
geminates: yes
long_v: yes
syllable_template: CVC; CVV; CV
VX weight: 1
V weight: 0
1995 Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.
1979 Goddard, Ives. 1979. Delaware Verbal Morphology. Garland Publishing, New York.
1982 Goddard, Ives. 1982. The Historical Phonology of Munsee. International Journal of American Linguistics 48. 16-48.
1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
211 no text
211-215: Alternating stress is assigned from left-to-right, stressless first CV: and CVC heavy, CV light. Main stress is on the rightmost non-final stress. Since the strong vowels that lack main stress resist reduction processes, it is plausible to assume secondary stress (Hayes 1995:211-215)
1979 Goddard, Ives, (1979), Delaware Verbal morphology. Garland Publishing, New York
1982 Goddard, Ives (1982), The historical phonology of Munsee, International Journal of American Linguistics 48, 16-48.
ˌeːntaˈmaxkaˌwiːt when he found me
pəkəw vegetable gum
šawəsəw he is weak
nəšawəsiː ɪ am weak
maxkəsəw he is red
šaːwalaːmwiːtəwak the little ones starved to death
ˈpko vegetable gum
nəˈməttəme i follow sa trail
məˈtəmeːw he follows a trail
ˈktoxkwso he crawled out
ˈnkətxkwsi i crawled out