Quality-conditioned stress as length: glide epenthesis in Moksha
Alexandra Shikunova
October 2024 

In Strict CV, stress is assumed to be computed above the skeleton and therefore to be independent of melody (Scheer 2004), so the existence of genuinely quality-conditioned stress is not expected. It can, however, be reanalyzed with virtual length (Lowenstamm 1991; Ségéral & Scheer 2016; Ben Si Saïd 2011). This paper presents a reanalysis of quality-conditioned stress in Moksha, which helps model the interaction between stress and glide epenthesis, where /i/ and /u/ can spread to form a glide before vowel-initial suffixes. Vowel spreading can happen after polysyllabic nouns but not after the monosyllabic ones. This rule is linked to the representation of stress as underlying length.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/007524 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Radical: A Journal of Phonology, volume 6, 2024
keywords:	stress, vowel length, strict cv phonology, element theory, glide epenthesis, vowel-glide alternations, moksha, phonology
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