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Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Disyllabic Footing and Contextual Syllable Weight
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Ulloa, Jose A. Elias. Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Disyllabic Footing and Contextual Syllable Weight. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3028QB0

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TitleTheoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Disyllabic Footing and Contextual Syllable Weight
NameUlloa, Jose A. Elias (Author); Rutgers University; Graduate School-New Brunswick
Date Created2006
Other Date2006 (degree)
SubjectLinguistics, Phonology, Panoan languages, foot size, variable weight for CVC syllables, segmental rhythmic phenomena, metrical stress, Grammar, Comparative and general--Syllable, Accents and accentuation
Extent288 p.
DescriptionThis dissertation studies the relation between foot size and contextual syllable-weight. In particular, it focuses on the influence that foot disyllabicity has on triggering quantity adjustments of syllable weight. Within Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993; 2004), this dissertation formally addresses the relation between foot size and syllable weight through the stringency relation between two constraints: *FOOT(syllable) and *FOOT(mora). The former penalizes feet smaller than two syllables and the latter, feet smaller than two moras. In isolation, they create a scale in which disyllabic feet are more preferable than monosyllabic feet and, in turn, bimoraic monosyllabic feet (symbolized as (H)-feet) are more preferable than monomoraic monosyllabic feet (symbolized as (L)-feet). The existence of other conflicting constraints can, however, prevent the occurrence of disyllabic feet, which in turn causes the emergence of monosyllabic feet. Whether feet are disyllabic or monosyllabic in a given context depends on the conflict between respecting the constraints that inhibit quantity adjustments, complying with those that restrict the distribution of syllable weight and satisfying the constraints *FOOT(syllable) and *FOOT(mora). Empirically, the relation between foot disyllabicity and quantity adjustments of syllable weight is studied through the detailed examination of two Panoan languages spoken in the Peruvian Amazon: Shipibo and Capanahua. The data presented is the result of several field trips carried out by the author. Although both languages are trochaic by default and distinguish heavy versus light syllables, (H)-feet are avoided in favor of disyllabic feet. In order to obtain disyllabic feet and avoid heavy syllables as heads of uneven (H.L)-trochees or in unstressed positions, Shipibo and Capanahua contextually adjust vowel length and the weight of closed syllables. The disyllabic footing of Shipibo and Capanahua is not only supported by the distribution of heads within the Prosodic Word (PrWd) but also by a number of segmental rhythmic phenomena; for example, rhythmic allomorphy, long vowels and heavy closed syllables restricted to even syllables, inhibition of glottal coalescence in odd syllables.
NotePh.D.
Genrethesis, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3028QB0
LanguageEnglish
CollectionRutgers Optimality Archive, Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work
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