Book contents
- German Phonology
- German Phonology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables and Tableaux
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Lower Prosodic Constituents: Moras, Syllables, Feet
- 2 The Sounds of German
- 3 Syllables and Moras
- 4 Segmental Alternations
- 5 The Foot
- 6 Schwa and Syllabic Sonorants
- Part II The Higher Prosodic Constituents: Prosodic Words, Prosodic Phrases and Intonation Phrases
- References
- Index
- List of Constraints
5 - The Foot
Lexical Stress in OT
from Part I - Lower Prosodic Constituents: Moras, Syllables, Feet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2025
Book contents
- German Phonology
- German Phonology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables and Tableaux
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Lower Prosodic Constituents: Moras, Syllables, Feet
- 2 The Sounds of German
- 3 Syllables and Moras
- 4 Segmental Alternations
- 5 The Foot
- 6 Schwa and Syllabic Sonorants
- Part II The Higher Prosodic Constituents: Prosodic Words, Prosodic Phrases and Intonation Phrases
- References
- Index
- List of Constraints
Summary
Chapter 5 focuses on the metrical foot in its role in lexical stress assignment in monomorphemes. The chapter provides an extensive review of the distribution of lexical stress in di- and trisyllabic words with quantified data. It also contains a review of previous approaches, followed by a detailed OT analysis, both for regular patterns of lexical stress locations, and for three irregular stress patterns.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- German PhonologyAn Optimality-Theoretic Approach, pp. 200 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025