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Lect:
Cayuga
latitude,longitude:
42.5,-75.9
Patterns [ 9 ] Attributes Syllables [ 6 ] Sources [ 5 ] Words [ 9 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
L (CNT)
 ≥1 syllable dominant
primary
STCSPC
1/0L
 ≤2 syllables dominant
primary
STCSPC
23@sR
 ≥3 syllables dominant
secondary Left, right EM, QS, iambic, iterative ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
None
 ≤2 syllables dominant
secondary
STCSPC
i(H',LX')L, no 1R
 ≥3 syllables dominant
in_toto Cayuga ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Cayuga) ≥1 syllable exceptional
phonotactic Light monosyllables do not occur ≥1 syllable phonotactic

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Syllable Parameters [ 3 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight [ 2 ]
br_onsets: yes
closed_syll: yes
long_v: no
syllable_template: V; CV; CVC; CCV (under certain cond.); (V:/CV: are derived)
VV weight: 1
V weight: 0
1995 Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.
1977 Chafe, Wallace L. 1977. Accent and Related Phenomena in the Five Nations Iroquois Languages. In Hyman, Larry, ed. Studies in Stress and Accent, pp. 161-181. Los Angeles: USC Department of Linguistics.
1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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1982 Foster, M. (1982). Alternating Weak and Strong Syllables in Cayuga Words. In: International Journal of American Linguistics 48, pp 59-72.
1977 Chafe, W.L. (1977). Accent and related phenomena in the Five Nations Iroquois languages. Studies in Stress and Accent, ed. Larry Hyman. 169-181. Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no.4. Los Angeles:university of Southern California Press.
oˈthoːweʔ it is cold
ẽhẽnatoːwat they will hunt
ẽˌkataˌtõkwʔeˈtõːnyẽʔ ɪ will make some people for myself
aˈkyẽthoʔ ɪ planted it
kaˈnestaʔ board
ahiˈhoːwiʔ ɪ told him
hoˈtiyaneʔ chiefs
kanyoːʔ wild animal
hẽnaːˈtoːwas they are hunting