Optimality Theory and Arawan Prosodic Systems

Syllable Integrity

This paper argues that syllables may be divided by feet, based on an analysis of Banawá, an Arawan language of the Brazilian Amazon. This result is important for phonological theory because it improves our understanding of the variable roles of syllables and moras in the phonological systems of individual languages and because it underscores the urgent need for more fieldwork on the prosody of ...

Iambic Feet in Paumari and the Theory of Foot Structure

This paper analyzes stress and moraic constituencies in Paumari, an endangered language of the Arawan family of the Brazilian Amazon. It argues that Paumari feet are quantity-insensitive iambs, built from right-to-left within the prosodic word. Both of these latter claims are theoretically important because they violate some proposed universals of foot structure. The paper also discusses more g...

The Prosody of Discourse Structure and Content in the Production of Persian EFL Learners

The present research addressed the prosodic realization of global and local text structure and content in the spoken discourse data produced by Persian EFL learners. Two newspaper articles were analyzed using Rhetorical Structure Theory. Based on these analyses, the global structure in terms of hierarchical level, the local structure in terms of the relative importance of text segments and the ...

Phonological theory and the development of prosodic structure: Evidence from child Japanese

This article presents a model of prosodic structure development that takes account of the fundamental continuity between child and adult systems, the surface level divergence of child forms from their adult target forms, and the overall developmental paths of prosodic structure. The main empirical base for the study comes from longitudinal data collected from three Japanese-speaking children (1...

Optimality Of Monetary And Fiscal Policies In Iran: An Application Of The Stochastic Optimal Control Theory