Sonority-Driven Reduction
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0. Combinations of Sonority and Stress In their analysis of Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber syllabification, Prince and Smolensky (1993) postulate that different types of prominence, such as sonority and syllabicity, should align—a phenomenon they term prominence alignment. This concept is implemented by Prince and Smolensky using families of inherently-ranked constraints that are derived from combining phonetic prominence scales. The type of constraints they use are illustrated in (1), along with the prominence scales used to derive them:
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