Avoiding stress on non-lexical material in nouns and verbs: predictable verb prosody in Serbo-Croatian stress standard varieties

We consider two asymmetries reported in the literature on word prosodic systems: the tendency to allow more prosodic contrast in nouns than in verbs and the tendency to avoid stress on functional material. We focus on the interaction between these two tendencies and propose a formal mechanism to han...

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Main Authors: Simonović Marko, Kager René
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-09-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0111