Please add comments to this post for questions or comments on the materials in Week 1, including the Prince and Smolensky reading.
Please add comments to this post for questions or comments on the materials in Week 1, including the Prince and Smolensky reading.
I am not too sure I understand what a syllable is and what conditions of syllables individuation are. For example in (Prince and Smolensky) they discuss syllables of the form CVV. I thought (somehow) that a syllable can contain only one vowel.
The constraints that determine the stress always mention only a syllable (heavy or light, rightmost or leftmost etc), not a vowel inside of the syllable. In examples like (46b) what does determine which of the vowels in the heavy syllable gets stress?
(46b) ru.káa.yaa.
All the examples of a syllable with 2 vowels in (Prince and Smolensky) contain the repetition of the same vowel, is it possible to have one syllable with 2 different vowels? How do we know if it is the same syllable or 2 different syllables?