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Lect:
Ossetic
latitude,longitude:
43,44
Patterns [ 6 ] Attributes Syllables [ 5 ] Sources [ 6 ] Words [ 5 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
I/S12/2L
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
AbsentAbsent
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
None
 ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto first if heavy, else second ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Osetin) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 3 ] Syllabic Template Weight [ 2 ]
closed_syll: yes
geminates: yes
long_v: yes

No syllabic template information for this lect.

VV weight: 1
V weight: 0
1964 Abaev, Vasilii Ivanovich. 1964. A Grammtical Sketch of Ossetic. International Journal of American Linguistics, v. 30, no. 4, pt. 2. Indiana University of Center in Anthropology, Folklore and Linguistics, Bloomington.
1995 Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.
1981 Hayes, Bruce. 1981. A metrical theory of stress rules. 1980. Ph.D. thesis, MIT.
63: In definite nouns stress is always initial. (Hayes 1980:63)
1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
261 no text
261: Stress falls on the first vowel of a phrase if it is long, otherwise on the second vowel (Hayes 1995:261)
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.
71: Stress is either initial or on the second syllable, stress placement is partially free, partially fixed. (Hyman 1977:71)
1964 Abaev, V.I. (1964). A Grammatical Sketch of Ossetic. Indiana University Center in Antropology, Folklore and Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana.
ˈsuudzaag burning
bæˈlaas a tree
sirx ˈtirisaa red flag
ˈbælaas the tree
ˈmaa tars do not be afraid