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ABSTRACT:
Although various phenomena are often included under the general heading of prominence-sensitive stress, weight sensitivity and sonority sensitivity are the canonical examples. In weight-sensitive systems, stress is attracted to syllables with a greater number of moras at the expense of syllables with a lesser number. In sonority-sensitive systems, stress is attracted to syllables containing vowels of greater sonority at the expense of syllables containing vowels of lesser sonority. In this article, I will first develop an analysis of weight sensitivity, and then I will extend the analysis to sonority sensitivity. The aim is to provide a general and uniform account of both phenomena.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Brett Hyde, "Towards a Uniform Account of Prominence-Sensitive Stress" (June 20, 2006). Linguistics Research Center. Wondering at the Natural Fecundity of Things: Essays in Honor of Alan Prince. Paper 8.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/lrc/prince/8