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Lect:
Paiute, Southern
latitude,longitude:
39,-119
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 2 ] Sources [ 5 ] Words [ 7 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
S2L
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary Left, iambic, iterative, right EM ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Paiute, Southern) ≥1 syllable exceptional

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Syllable Parameters [ 2 ] Syllabic Template Weight
geminates: yes
long_v: yes

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No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1981 Hayes, Bruce. 1981. A metrical theory of stress rules. 1980. Ph.D. thesis, MIT.
53: Bisyllabic words have initial stress. Main stress falls on the second vowel, and secondary stresses on alternating vowels thereafter. (Hayes 1980:53)
79: Final vowels do not receive stress. (Hayes 1980:79)
1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
121: In words with an even number of syllables, the penult is stressed and not the final Hayes (1995:266). Moreover, stress is assigned to mora's, sometimes diving a long vowel into two feet.. (Hayes 1995:121)
1977 Hyman, Larry. 1977. On the nature of linguistic stress. Studies in stress and accent: Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4 ed. by Larry Hyman. Los Angeles: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Southern California.
50: All words beginning with a syllable containing an organic short vowel, inherently unglottalized, are accented on the second syllable, unless the second syllable is final and therefore unvoiced, in which case the main stress is thrown back on the first syllable (Hyman 1977:50)
1930 Sapir, E. (1930). Southern Paiute, A Shoshonean Language. In: Proceedings of the American Society of Arts and Sciences. Vol 65, No 1-3.
1966 Harms, R.T. (1966). Stress, voice and length in Southern Paiute. IJAL 32, 228-235.
232: Bisyllabic words have initial stress. Main stress falls on the second vowel, and secondary stresses on alternating vowels thereafter. (Harms 1966:232)
aˈčakki to fall
oˈtaapi pole
ˈkani house
kʷaˈaxʷi grass seed
čaˈka.iˌcini my younger brother
tɨ. xwˈi .i ˌna. tɨ ˌβicu xwˌa i ˌʔi ŋwa go and ask him to tell a story
ačakkɨ to fall