10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRETONIC»
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1
Strength and Weakness at the Interface: Positional ...
unsurprisingly, there was a strong main effect of syllable relative to stress,
reflecting the distinction traditionally reported between an [a]-like vowel in the first
pretonic syllable, and a schwa-like vowel in the second pretonic: F(1, 3) = 65.434
(p ...
2
Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction
992: 34). For pretonic vowel deletion to occur, general phonological constraints
must prevail. Thus, Yiddish maintains pretonic vowel in closed syllable: talmidam
'pupils,' not **tlmidam. Whether this is due to Yiddish synchronic phonology or to
...
3
Diphthongization of Non-high Vowel Sequences in Latin ...
and pretonic non-initial (^=438.714). Results from a repeated measures ANOVA
showed that posttonic sequences were significantly lower than pretonic initial
and pretonic non-initial. Additionally, pretonic initial sequences were significantly
...
4
Modelling British English Intonation
On the other hand, when there is a pretonic, the contour is on the middle level
when it reaches the tonic vowel onset and there a half rise 1 122 begins. In both
cases, the rise begins at the vowel onset. As a result, the fall comes relatively late
in ...
Jan Roelof de Pijper, 1983
5
Noniterativity is an Emergent Property of Grammar
(25) The ranking used here ensures that only pretonic backness features will
spread. The Licensing constraints motivate spreading from other positions, but
Ident prevents spreading from all but the pretonic position. Notice that the
constraint ...
5.5.1 Perceptually relevant pretonic movements Pitch movements in pretonic
syllables affect the perception of pitch movements in a number of ways. For
example, a pitch movement in the tonic syllable can be a continuation of a
movement in ...
7
Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology
he-, which was always pretonic but occurred in both open (e.g. hegar 'friendly')
and closed syllables (e.g. hedro 'changeable'): the type hegar would then have
replaced *hougar by introducing the al- lomorph he-, which was regular in the
type ...
8
Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory
However. many other dialects in this area have a specific type of change in which
the quality of the pretonic vowel does depend on thai of the stressed vowel. This
is called dissimilative akanje (after unpalatalized consonants) and dissimilative ...
Christina Y. Bethin, 1998
9
The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Usually, the enclitic and any syllabic material it brings with it will be part of the
pretonic. We can thus describe the distribution of the elements as follows: (28) i.
Conjunct particles are always pretonic. ii. If there is no conjunct particle, then the
...
Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Eithne Guilfoyle Head of Humanities, Design and Technology, 2000
10
Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory
The immediately pretonic syllable in Russian has long been recognized as
having a special durational status: 1t is much longer than other unstressed
syllables, and can sometimes even be longer than the stressed syllable (this is
often the ...
Katherine Crosswhite, Alexander Jun, 2001
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRETONIC»
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How Can Traditional Music Theory Mesh With Modern Pop Music?
Rock uses plenty of V-I, but it uses even more IV-I. And the third most common pretonic chord in rock is not ii, like you'd expect if you went to ... «Slate Magazine, Feb 14»
