Ternarity through binarity

• Main Author: McCartney, Steven James
• Other Authors: Myers, Scott P.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Accents and accentuation; Metrical phonology; Bani; alutiiq
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/765

text Ternary stress patterns—the lapse of more than one syllable between stresses—have been challenging for metrical stress theory. The existence of a ternary primitive predicts the existence of trisyllabic word minima, trisyllabic reduplicants, and most directly, stress on every third syllable. The...