Onsets and syllable prominence in Umutina

In Umutina the distribution of main word stress is sensitive to the sonority degree of vowels within a two-syllable window at the right side of the word, a property which it shares with a number of other languages. What makes Umutina particularly interesting is the fact that low sonorant onsets in t...

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Main Authors: W. Leo WETZELS, Stella TELLES, Ben HERMANS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2014-01-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502014000300703&lng=en&tlng=en