DTT Atelier Phonological Typology: Stress, syllabification and empty morphs in Araona (Takana)
14:00-15:30
ISH - Salle Ennat Léger
"Stress, syllabification and empty morphs in Araona"
Adam Tallman
This talk will provide a detailed discussion of the stress rules in Araona and their relationship to syllabification and morphological structure. After providing a review of Araona segmental phonology, I will discuss the stress rule in Araona. The Araona stress rule seems simple; (i) stress on the second syllable if the phonological “word” contains more than two syllables; (ii) stress on the first syllable if the phonological “word” contains just two syllables. However, the maintaining the simplicity of the analysis is dependent on a few other assumptions about syllabification. In certain verb complexes a dropped empty morph /e/ (present in other forms) must be imputed in order to maintain the stress rule. The stress rule also requires that the relatively sonorous /e/ be syllabified as a coda consonant in certain circumstances. Finally, certain noun – modifier combinations (e.g. noun + plural or noun + adjective) would have to vary in terms of whether they are treated as a single stress domain or not.