LEXICAL STRESS PLACEMENT IN MONOMORPHEMIC WORDS IN PAHARI…在中的单字节词中的应力放置.pdfVIP

Lexical Stress Placement... LEXICAL STRESS PLACEMENT IN MONOMORPHEMIC WORDS IN PAHARI A.Q.Khan, N.H.Bukhari Muzaffarabad, Pakistan Summary: The study was undertaken with the objective to compile a detailed description of the lexical stress pattern in Pahari. The study found out the following: 1) from a typological point of view, Pahari is a quantity-sensitive, rhythmic, and unbounded language; 2) superheavy syllables get the main stress irrespective of their place of occurrence in the word; 3) the penult gets the main stress when all syllables have equal weight (heavy-heavy or super- heavy-superheavy); 4) when a syllable does not fit into the stress pattern of the language, extrametricality is used to make it fit. 1. Introduction The accent or stress in a word can be characterized by several tendencies. Typo- logically, lexical stress can be differentiated into free vs. fixed and rhythmic vs. morphological, whereby rhythmic languages can be subdivided into bounded vs. unbounded. In the following paragraph we will shortly discuss several studies for stress patterns in certain Indo-Aryan languages. However, there are no such studies for Pahari. Stress is generally predictable because it usually depends on factors like syllable weight and, in some languages such as Hindi, Gujarati, and Punjabi, number of syllables in a word [Dhillon 2010, Masica 1991]. Jain [1926] states that a number of Indo-Aryan languages – Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Rajasthani, and possibly Bengali and Singhalese – are descendants of Prakrit, which had developed penultimate stress. Jains account shows that a change in the position of stress occurred in these