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Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Salish) Stress: A look at the acoustics of /a/ and /u/
Academic Work
Preliminary results in this analysis show that in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh there is a resetting of the beginning of a stress domain when a strong suffix is attached to a root. This verifies a prediction made by Watt (2000) that strong suffixes are the second half of a prosodic compound. This is clear since the acoustic correlates of stress; namely, length, pitch and amplitude, are statistically the same on the vowel of a root whether or not a strong suffix is attached to it.
AW.00080
2000
Language and Linguistics
Papers for International Conference on Salish Languages (ICS(N)L)
35, 199-218
35, 199-218
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