Metrically conditioned pitch and layered feet in Chugach Alutiiq

• Published in: Loquens
• Main Authors: Martínez-Paricio, Violeta, Kager, René
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2016
• Subjects: metrical phonology; phonological representations; ternary stress; metrically conditioned pitch; fonología métrica; representaciones fonológicas; acento ternario; tono condicionado por la estructura métrica; Lengua; Martínez; alutiiq
• Online Access: https://loquens.revistas.csic.es/index.php/loquens/article/view/35; https://doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2016.030

This article presents a reanalysis of the foot-based phonology of Chugach Alutiiq (henceforth CA), a language that displays a complex mixed ternary–binary rhythm, as well as metrically conditioned distributions of pitch, fortition and vowel lengthening. Elaborating on earlier analyses of CA that had...