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Lect:
Cahuilla, Desert and Mountain Dialects
latitude,longitude:
34.5,-118
Patterns [ 5 ] Attributes Syllables [ 4 ] Sources [ 8 ] Words [ 10 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
I1L
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary Centrifugal, iterative, QS ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto initial ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Cahuilla) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 2 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight [ 1 ]
closed_syll: yes
long_v: yes
syllable_template: CV(C)
any weight: 0
1995 Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.
2002 Gordon, Matthew. 2002. A factorial typology of quantity insensitive stress. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20. pages 491-552.
1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
133 no text
1957 Seiler, Hansjakob. 1957. Die phonetischen Grundlagen der Vokalphoneme des Cahuilla.Zeitschrift fur Phonetik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft 10, 204-23.
1965 Seiler, Hansjakob. 1965. Accent and morphophonemics in Cahuilla and Uto-Aztecan. International Journal of American Linguistics 31, 50-9.
52: Sometimes stress is phonemic. Primary stress on the first of the root, secondary stress on alternates before and after the main stress. If a secondary stress would fall on a voiceless vowel, according to the rules above, it shifts to the preceding vowel, even if that means it ends up adjacent to another stress. (Seiler 1965:52)
1965 Seiler, H. (1965). Accent and morphophonemics in Cahuilla and in Uzo-Aztecan. In: IJAL vol 31 No 1
1967 Seiler, H. (1967). Structure and Reconstruction in some Uzo-Aztecan Languages. In: IJAL vol 33 No 2.
1972 Seiler, H. (1972). Cahuilla Grammar. Malki Museum Press, Banning, California.
ˈpaːl wooden mortar
ˈñaʔaˌčeh sit down
ˈqaanˌkitʃem palo verde pl.
ˈpukawˌtemih gopher snakes.obj.pl
ˈhaʔḁˌtisqal he is sneezing
ˈmeˌniʔi̥ˌlih moon.obj
ˌpapenˈtuleˌqaleˌveh where i was grinding it
ˈneñukum female cousins
neˈñukum male cousins
ˈna father