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The primacy of the weak in Carib prosody

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Accents are normally associated with the lexically stressed syllable of a word. The Carib language (Cornelis Kondre dialect) is an exception. Instead of association, we there find dissociation of accent and stress. Accentuation may go to many places inside a word, but never to its lexically stressed syllable. As phonetic correlate of stress I relied on the conspicuous difference in duration between the first and the second syllable that characterizes nearly all Carib words. Accentuation I held to be the result of prominence-lending pitch changes. The regularity stated in the first paragraph was tested by comparing the size of pitch changes during the stress-bearing first foot with those beyond the first foot.

References

  1. Gildea, S
    (1995) A comparative description of syllable reduction in the Cariban language family. International Journal of American Linguistics, 61, 62–102. doi: 10.1086/466245
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  2. (1998) On reconstructing grammar: Comparative Cariban morphosyntax. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  3. Hawkins, W.N
    (1950) Patterns of vowel loss in Macushi (Caribe). International Journal of American Linguistics, 16, 87–90. doi: 10.1086/464069
     https://doi.org/10.1086/464069 [Google Scholar]
  4. Hoff, B
    (1968) The Carib language. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 55. The Hague: Nijhoff.
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References

  1. Gildea, S
    (1995) A comparative description of syllable reduction in the Cariban language family. International Journal of American Linguistics, 61, 62–102. doi: 10.1086/466245
     https://doi.org/10.1086/466245 [Google Scholar]
  2. (1998) On reconstructing grammar: Comparative Cariban morphosyntax. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Hawkins, W.N
    (1950) Patterns of vowel loss in Macushi (Caribe). International Journal of American Linguistics, 16, 87–90. doi: 10.1086/464069
     https://doi.org/10.1086/464069 [Google Scholar]
  4. Hoff, B
    (1968) The Carib language. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 55. The Hague: Nijhoff.
     [Google Scholar]

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