Pacific Yup'ik: Implications for Metrical Theory

• Main Author: Rice, Curtis
• Other Authors: Myers, James, Pérez, Patricia E., University of Texas, Austin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) 1990
• Subjects: Grammar; comparative and general > Phonology; Hayes; Pacific; Yup'ik
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227264

Recent developments in metrical theory have led to the situation in which there are now at least four different approaches to stress assignment. One approach uses only a grid to represent the relative prominence of syllables in a word (cf. Prince 1983); aside from representational conventions, the g...