ABSTRACT
First published in 1993. The focus of this study is a set of related problems in the phonology of Passamaquoddy involving stress assignment and syncope. Both of these processes make a distinction between stressable and unstressable vowels.
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chapter |6 pages
/a/ of the reflexive suffix / -asi-/ in (26b) is basically unstressable: compare kdl-so
/hm/, /hn/, or /hy /, which are all quite rare. (These /hl/ are the only combinations of
chapter |21 pages
every other floating fa/ receives a V-slot: alternating stressability.
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chapter |2 pages
jppj in the latter. (Since any non-syllabic is long as the first member
c v c I I I I I I I I I I I I I ihsa
chapter |11 pages
jaj but not
If apparent exceptions to one rule are also apparent exceptions to the other, within /a/. We would then appear to have justification for postulating abstract
chapter |11 pages
/h/, and
Deletion /hV / apparently arises only in about a dozen /hV / are illustrated in
chapter |5 pages
/pet-/ for /pat-/ in (243b), pet-ham-an 'when I hooked it.'
/t/ /pet-/ /h/ /h/ and /m/ is now associated with a V-slot. c v c v I I I I I I I I pethaman c v c c v c v c
chapter |5 pages
/a!-/ cannot be extrametrical here, since it follows a floating /a j. As a
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/c/ as a sequence on
I I I I I I /c/ is not phonetically identical with t. It is, instead,
chapter |11 pages
Extending the CV theory of syncope
/a ... ... i/. Again the prediction is wrong: fa/ of pakahk&n is inherently stress- /a/ would apparently occur
chapter |12 pages
Syncope and palatalization
/if. A third rule changes /if. Root-final /i/ remains unstressable and undergoes syncope, a preceding /i/ regularly appears when an underlying sequence of two segments
chapter |2 pages
Notes to Chapter 6
/sC/. Thus cases of this type provide clear evidence against an analysis like It has been suggested that PEA made a distinction between
chapter |13 pages
/, then the a of
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chapter |5 pages
/i/. The fact that there are no surface alternations which call for a rule changing
/e/. /e/ at the same time as the associated V-slot is deleted. I will not attempt If the view of E-Mutation for which I will argue correct, then floating /i/ as
chapter |2 pages
It is the possibility of syllable-final clusters of
/hk/ in this representation to be syllabified here, so that
chapter |2 pages
Notes to Chapter 8
< jtohpi/). Note also wikawam-i apasiy-ahkwi-hko-k (house-PN /w/ of the suffix contracts with a following jaj to /o/. Before II verbs only in certain negative
chapter |3 pages
fa/ which follows such clusters. For example, the reanaly-
I I I /a/, stressable or unstressable, with a stressable /e/, provided that it follows at most one non-syllabic segment at the beginning of the
chapter 1003|8 pages
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were/ -n V /, where V is some vowel. This I I I I I I I I I I I
