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ROA 551-1002

Word, foot, and syllable structure in Burmese

Antony Dubach Green <green@ling.uni-potsdam.de>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=551


Abstract:
In this overview of various effects in the prosodic 
phonology of Burmese, a number of suggestions are made.  
First, the Coda Condition is extended to a ban on all 
place features (including vowel place features) at the 
right edge of the syllable.  Second, all feet in Burmese 
consist of a single heavy syllable alone.  Third, the 
tone-bearing unit of Burmese is the foot.  Fourth, the 
foot tolerates onset clusters, but the syllable does not.  
Fifth, with few exceptions, prosodic categories in Burmese 
are preferably nonbranching, i.e. each category dominates 
exactly one member of the next lower category.  Sixth, the 
exceptions to that generalization are accounted for by 
prespecifying some prosodic structure (pword, foot) in the 
input.

Keywords: Burmese, prosody, prosodic word, foot, syllable, onset cluster,
tone-bearing unit, coda condition

Areas: Phonology

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=551