Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Linguistics
Journal Title
Proceedings of the LSA
Pub Date
2018
Publisher
Linguistic Society of America
Volume
3
Issue
25
First Page
1
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Binary stress languages have a well-known asymmetry between their tolerance of initial versus final lapse; the former being extremely rare and the latter being quite common. Lunden (to appear) proposes that final lengthening plays a role in this asymmetry, as the additional inherent phonetic duration of the final syllable can contribute to the continuation of a perceived rhythm, even in the absence of actual final stress. She notes this effect of final lengthening should only be available in languages that use duration as a cue to stress. However, some languages are described as having different cues to primary and secondary stress, and it is not clear which is more important for this perceptual effect. The results of four new studies show that final lengthening contributes to the perceptual rhythm of the word even when only one level of stress is cued with duration.
Recommended Citation
Hogoboom, Anya, Durational Cues to Stress, Final Lengthening, and the Perception of Rhythm (2018). Proceedings of the LSA, 3(25), 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4312
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4312
