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Lect:
Slave
latitude,longitude:
60,-120
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 4 ] Sources [ 1 ] Words [ 2 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
LEXlexical
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
AbsentAbsent
 ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Slave) ≥1 syllable exceptional

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Syllable Parameters [ 3 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
br_onsets: yes
geminates: yes
long_v: yes
syllable_template: (C)CV(V) ?

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1989 Rice, Keren. (1989). A Grammar of Slave. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  Stress is not a distinctive feature in Slave. In the Hare dialect, there are stress-like properties which are predictable. What might be called stress generally falls on the vowel immediately preceding the stem vowel of a noun. A stressed vowel is generally acoustically more intense than an unstressed vowel, and intensity is in fact the primary phonetic correlate of stress. In prefixes in all dialects, a high tone may fall on a vowel with lexical high tone. That vowel then has extra stress, or is more intense. In the perfective, the first and third person singular forms differ only by tone placement. Where the high tone falls on a vowel already bearing a hight tone, as in the first person singular perfective form, this vowel retains its tone and receives prominent stress Rice (1989:46)
ʔónédéʔɔ s\he gave away
ʔónéˈdeʔɔ i gave away