Foot Harmony and Quantitative Adjustments

• Main Author: Bakovic, Eric
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: No Publisher Supplied 1996
• Subjects: Hayes; Lawrence Island; McCarthy; central alaskan yupik; St Lawrence Island; Yupik
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7282/t33b61tx; https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/46155/

Foot structure can affect syllable weight, as is well known from the analysis of minimal word effects (McCarthy & Prince 1986, 1993ab, 1994 inter alia). Other examples of lengthening or shortening processes that are sensitive to foot structure (henceforth, quantitative adjustments) are quite com...