Ternary Constituents Are a Consequence of Mora Sluicing

While ternary rhythm exists, ternary feet do not, not even indirectly by means of recursion. We propose that ternary rhythm arises from mora sluicing, the phenomenon whereby moras can be excluded from the stress plane to satisfy an instance of NO-CLASH in a model that conceives metrical prominences as headed constituents. We demonstrate that the notion of mora sluicing has high explanatory power: it is necessary on independent grounds to explain otherwise unrelated phenomena such as uneven trochee-creating processes in Mohawk and Central Slovak, and opaque stress-epenthesis interactions in Mohawk. One fundamental move derived from the metrical model sketched in this paper is the relation between what we call line1 constituents (phonological syllables) and phonetic syllables (namely CV or CVC sequences), which is not one-to-one anymore, as it is in standard syllable theory.

A ASPIRAÇÃO DA FRICATIVA EM POSIÇÃO DE CODA NO DIALETO FLORIANOPOLITANO - VARIAÇÃO E TEORIA

This article aims at studying the laryngeal fricative that arises as one of the variants of the/S/ in coda position in Portuguese language under the perspective of Linguistic Variation Theoryand under the perspective of Syllable Theory. The corpus, part of the data bank of Varsul Project,embraces 100 informants from three diferent regions of Florianóplis, Santa Catarina (Barra daLagoa, Ribeirão da Ilha e Florianópolis, the urban area). The linguistic variables that regulate thevariant under study are the preceding context, the following context, stress and the position of thesegment in the word. A relation of opposition concerning the environments of conditioning isestablished with another variant of /S/ in coda position, the palatoalveolar fricative. The socialvariable Age demonstrated to be statistically significant and pointed to a situation of stable variation