Pattern

• Main Authors: In Inari Saami, Patrik Bye, Inari Saami, Phonological Quantity
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Inari; Tromsø; Northern Finland; saami; University of Tromsø
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.352.9836; http://www.cunyphonologyforum.net/FOOTPAPERS/byehandout.pdf

Inari Saami (Finno-Ugric, Northern Finland) has morphologically conditioned rhythmic Consonant Gradation that presupposes left-to-right syllabic trochees. Inari Saami also has partly morphologically conditioned Accent (word-final monosyllabic foot). Facts of stress, quantity and duration reveals mis...