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| Title: | SYLLABLE "SONORITY" HIERARCHY AND PULAAR STRESS: A METRICAL APPROACH |
| Authors: | NIANG, MAMADOU |
| Issue Date: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | University of Kansas. Linguistics Graduate Student Association |
| Extent: | 2029551 bytes |
| Type: | Working Paper |
| Series/Report no.: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics; |
| Abstract: | "Syllable weight is usually viewed as a binary opposition…' (Hayes 1989) . That is, syllable weight distinctions are claimed to be at most binary: heavy vs light; bimoraic vs monomoraic. This paper argues that further distinctions of syllable weight are necessary to account for certain phonological processes. I argue and show that Pulaar (a dialect of Fula), makes a four way weight distinction. In addition, the analysis adopted in this paper shows that previous analyses of Pulaar metrical structure are inadequate. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/447 |
| ISSN: | 1043-3805 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume 20 (1995), KWPL
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