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Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics edited by Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon ISBN 1-57473-415-6 library binding vii+461 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Sharon Hargus and Virginia Beavert High-Ranking Affix Faithfulness in Yakima Sahaptin 177-185 (complete pdf) In the Yakima dialect of Sahaptin, nearly all lexical roots have an underlying accent, which fails to surface when such roots are affixed with a stressed prefix or stressed suffix. Yakima Sahaptin is thus a counter-example to the claim that Root-Faithfulness always ranks higher than Affix-Faithfulness, a cornerstone of the accentual theory of Alderete 1999. Yakima Sahaptin is also a problem for the accentual theory of Revithiadou 1999, which predicts that the surviving accent always belongs to a head. |