StressTyp2

Pattern:

In words of three or more syllables, primary stress falls on the penultimate syllable if it has secondary stress, else on the antepenultimate syllable if it has secondary stress. In words of two or fewer syllables, primary stress falls on the initial syllable if it is heavy, else stress is not placed. In words of three or more syllables, secondary stress falls 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. In words of two or fewer syllables, there is no secondary stress.

Chafe, Wallace L. 1977. Accent and Related Phenomena in the Five Nations Iroquois Languages. In Hyman, Larry, ed. Studies in Stress and Accent, pp. 161-181. Los Angeles: USC Department of Linguistics.: 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.: (223) Excerpt not available.

type: quantity-sensitive bounded (qsb)

subtype: binary

No theoretical analysis for this pattern.

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Cayuga (currently viewing)

No attributes associated with this lect.

br_onsets: yes

closed_syll: yes

long_v: no

syllable_template: V; CV; CVC; CCV (under certain cond.); (V:/CV: are derived)

VV weight: 1

V weight: 0

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

1977 Chafe, Wallace L. 1977. Accent and Related Phenomena in the Five Nations Iroquois Languages. In Hyman, Larry, ed. Studies in Stress and Accent, pp. 161-181. Los Angeles: USC Department of Linguistics.

1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

223 no text

1982 Foster, M. (1982). Alternating Weak and Strong Syllables in Cayuga Words. In: International Journal of American Linguistics 48, pp 59-72.

1977 Chafe, W.L. (1977). Accent and related phenomena in the Five Nations Iroquois languages. Studies in Stress and Accent, ed. Larry Hyman. 169-181. Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no.4. Los Angeles:university of Southern California Press.

oˈthoːweʔ it is cold

ẽhẽnatoːwat they will hunt

ẽˌkataˌtõkwʔeˈtõːnyẽʔ ɪ will make some people for myself

aˈkyẽthoʔ ɪ planted it

kaˈnestaʔ board

ahiˈhoːwiʔ ɪ told him

hoˈtiyaneʔ chiefs

kanyoːʔ wild animal

hẽnaːˈtoːwas they are hunting

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