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Lect:
Cayuga
latitude,longitude:
42.5,-75.9
Patterns [ 9 ] Attributes Syllables [ 6 ] Sources [ 5 ] Words [ 9 ]
Pattern:
SPC: i(H',LX')L, no 1R
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Prose Analysis [ 3 ] 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.

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)

No theoretical analysis for this pattern.

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Syllable Parameters [ 3 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight [ 2 ]
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