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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Phonetic and Functional Bases of Syllable Weight for Stress Assignment

Abstract

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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).

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Linguistics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Ahn, Mee-Jin
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Jennifer Cole

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI9971008
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82690

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Ahn, Mee-Jin. Phonetic and Functional Bases of Syllable Weight for Stress Assignment. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82690