Morphology-phonology interplay in lexical stress assignment: Ichishkiin Sɨnwit

Acta Linguistica Academica ◽

10.1556/2062.2021.00487 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ksenia Bogomolets

Keyword(s):

Lexical Stress ◽

Stress System ◽

Stress Assignment ◽

Hiatus Resolution ◽

Relevant Domain ◽

Insight Into ◽

Current Proposal ◽

Lexical Stress Assignment ◽

Resolution Strategies

AbstractThis paper presents a novel analysis of the stress system of Ichishkiin Sɨnwit (Sahaptian). Ichishkiin Sɨnwit has been previously analyzed as a unique example of a stress system requiring a ranking of the Affix Faithfulness constraints over the Root Faithfulness constraints. I argue, however, that such idiosyncratic stress mechanisms are not necessary. Instead, I propose that accent assignment is cyclic: Underlying accent in the outermost derivational layer within the relevant domain wins. A central role in this analysis belongs to (i) the underlying specification of morphemes for accent, and to (ii) morpho-prosodic domains. The current proposal additionally offers an insight into the role of morpho-prosodic domains in the hiatus resolution strategies.

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Lexical stress assignment model for the Slovenian text-to-speech synthesis system

Proceedings of 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, 2004. ◽

10.1109/isimp.2004.1434156 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

T. Sef

Keyword(s):

Speech Synthesis ◽

Lexical Stress ◽

Text To Speech ◽

Synthesis System ◽

Stress Assignment ◽

Assignment Model ◽

Text To Speech Synthesis ◽

Lexical Stress Assignment

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The role of vowel parameters in defining lexical and subsidiary stress in Ukrainian

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics ◽

10.1515/psicl-2018-0014 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 54 (3) ◽

pp. 355-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Beata Łukaszewicz ◽

Janina Mołczanow

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Lexical Stress ◽

Stress System ◽

Vowel Duration ◽

Secondary Stress ◽

Primary Stress ◽

The Third ◽

Acoustic Correlates ◽

Initial Syllable

Abstract Recent work suggests that Ukrainian represents a typologically rare bidirectional stress system with internal lapses, i.e. sequences of unstressed syllables in the vicinity of primary stress (Łukaszewicz and Mołczanow 2018a, b). The system is more intricate than the hitherto known bidirectional systems (e.g. Polish), and thus interesting from the theoretical perspective, as it involves interaction between free lexical stress and secondary stresses. Lexical and subsidiary prominence in Ukrainian have been shown to be expressed acoustically in terms of increased duration of the whole syllable. This leaves open the question of the role of classic vowel parameters in shaping prominence effects in this language. The present study fills this gap by investigating vowel duration, intensity, and F0 as potential acoustic correlates of primary and secondary stress in Ukrainian. It focuses on words with primary stress on the fifth syllable. Such words are predicted to have secondary stress on the first and third syllables. The results point to statistically significant lengthening of vowels carrying lexical stress as well as of those in the initial syllable, but not in the third syllable. A possible explanation is that other parameters, e.g. consonant duration, may be crucial in the case of word-internal subsidiary stress in Ukrainian.

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