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Lect:
Menomini
latitude,longitude:
44,-88.3
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 3 ] Sources [ 2 ] Words [ 7 ]
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In progress
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Syllable Parameters [ 2 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
closed_syll: yes
long_v: yes
syllable_template: none given, at least (C)V(C)(C)

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1979 Pesetsky, D. (1979). Menomini Quantity. In: K. Safir (ed.) MIT Working papers in Linguistics vol 1, pp 115-139.
1962 Bloomfield, L. (1962). The Menomini Language. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.
19-20: Primary stress comes on every long vowel or diphthong in the next to last syllable of the word or compound. A primary stress also occurs on every long vowel that is followed by a syllable containing a short vowel. Secondary stresses come in the even numbered syllables in a succession of short ones, but never on the last. Words of two syllables with only short vowels have secondary stress on the first. If the second is long stress may occur on either syllable.. (Bloomfield 1962:19-20)
ˌnekot one
eˈnɛːniw man
ˈseːpeːw river
piaˈtɛːtuaq when they arrive
ˈmeːweˌnɛseˌhɛwak they drive him away
neˈpiːhtiˌkɛmenaw we enter
neˌtaːkaːˌwaːˈtaːnan i hanker for them