17.2735, Qs: Tertiary Stress and Optimality Theory

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Subject: 17.2735, Qs: Tertiary Stress and Optimality Theory

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Date: 20-Sep-2006
From: Sarah Collie < sejcollie at hotmail.com >
Subject: Tertiary Stress and Optimality Theory 

	
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:44:43
From: Sarah Collie < sejcollie at hotmail.com >
Subject: Tertiary Stress and Optimality Theory 
 


Dear colleagues

As part of my PhD dissertation I am looking at English non-primary stress
in Optimality Theory. I am yet to come across an optimality-theoretic
analysis which distinguishes between different degrees of non-primary
stress, i.e. secondary versus tertiary. Can anyone point me to an OT
analysis (of any language) which formally recognises tertiary stress? Or is
this problematic in OT?

Many thanks

Sarah Collie
University of Edinburgh 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Phonology




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