On exceptional stress assignment in Latvian

The case of prefixes

Bibliographic Data

ID11264571
AuthorsAndrés Fábregas (0000-0001-9907-5878, UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Antonio Fábregas (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Martin Kramer (0000-0002-2560-2679, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author), Anna Vulāne (0000-0002-7581-5891, Pedagoģijas, psiholoģijas un mākslas fakultāte Skolotāju izglītības nodaļa, Latvijas Universitāte, RPIVA, UL, Rīga, Latvia)
Year2018
Volume49
Issue4
Pages529-552
Publication date2018-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01629778.2018.1466817
OpenAlexW2801732951
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

In this article, we examine some previously understudied exceptions to the generalization that Latvian assigns stress to the left-most syllable in a prosodic word, specifically those that involve prefixation. We will show that these apparent exceptions in stress assignment follow from the internal structural properties of the word and are a result of attaching the prefix outside the domain where stress is assigned, which is up to the first functional head inside the hierarchy. Our treatment combines the syntactic structure of a neoconstructionist approach to word formation with an optimality theory formalization at the phonological level

Generalization · Hierarchy · Latvian · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Prefix · Speech recognition · Stress (linguistics · Syllable · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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