Mamaindé Stress

The Need for Strata

• Author(s): David Eberhard,
• Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Pages: 159
• ISBN_10: 1556710038
  ISBN_13: 9781556710032
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / African Languages , Foreign Language Study / Indigenous Languages of the Americas , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching ,

Description:... Stress plays an important role in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Mamainde. The author uses the current theories of metrical and lexical phonology to analyze this stress system. It is demonstrated that a typical application of metrical rules alone will not predict stress correctly. Instead, Mamainde must make use of multiple strata in order for stress placement to be predicted.