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Prosodic faithfulness to foot edges: the case of Turkish stress*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Öner Özçelik
Öner Özçelik*
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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E-mail: oozcelik@indiana.edu.
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Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to capturing exceptional stress that relies on prespecification of foot edges in the input. Focusing on Turkish, this approach accounts for both regular and exceptional stress in a unified manner and within a single grammar, and unlike other approaches, does not overpredict. On this account, Turkish is a footless, but trochaic, language. Both regular and exceptional Turkish morphemes are subject to the same constraint ranking; exceptional morphemes are different only in that they have one or more syllables already footed in the input, although the type of foot (e.g. trochaicity, binarity) is determined by the constraints of the grammar. As regular morphemes vacuously satisfy these constraints (which act on the foot), trochees appear on the surface only if there is an input foot available (i.e. in words with exceptional morphemes), since the grammar itself has no apparatus to parse syllables into feet.

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Phonology , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , August 2014 , pp. 229 - 269
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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Footnotes

*I would like to express my deepest thanks to Heather Goad, Glyne Piggott, Michael Wagner, Lydia White and the audience at NELS 40 for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Heather Goad, in particular, has provided many ideas, support and guidance for this project, for which I am extremely grateful. I would also like to thank the three anonymous reviewers of Phonology, as well as the associate editor, for their helpful comments and suggestions.

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