Phonetic and Functional Bases of Syllable Weight for Stress Assignment

206 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.The phonetic and functional analysis of syllable weight accounts for the previously unexplained asymmetry between heavy CVV and CVC syllables in their distribution: CVV counts as heavy in any position of a word, while CVC counts as heavy only in languages with phonemic vowel length synchronically or historically; and CVC counts as heavy only in three positions---initial, penultimate, antepenultimate---where positional lengthening was reported (Oller 1973, Klatt 1975).U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD