ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will provide detailed analyses of the moraic patterns of several languages: Hawaiian, Modern Standard Italian, two Hungarian dialects, two Icelandic dialects, and Metropolitan New York English. The goal of this chapter is fourfold:
to provide descriptions of some well-known and not so well-known weight phenomena;
to show how the constraints proposed in chapter 2 can provide analyses of moraic patterns that range from fairly simple (e.g. Hawaiian) to quite complex (e.g. Metropolitan New York English);
to show how the constraints proposed here can be integrated into a more complete phonological system to provide a coherent grammar (e.g. Icelandic); and
to show how different dialects can arise from a minimal re-ranking of constraints (e.g. Hungarian and Icelandic).
