1A Corpus-based Approach to Tahltan Stress*

According to the first paper on the subject, Cook 1972, stress assignment in Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan) is governed by both morphological and phonological principles. Cook’s report describes the language of an elder in Lower Post (northern British Columbia) and claims that stress is assigned to t...

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Main Authors: John Alderete, Tanya Bob
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.485.2683
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jaldere1/tstress.pdf
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Summary:According to the first paper on the subject, Cook 1972, stress assignment in Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan) is governed by both morphological and phonological principles. Cook’s report describes the language of an elder in Lower Post (northern British Columbia) and claims that stress is assigned to the syllable containing the stem