Yurok Syllable Weight

摘要: This paper examines syllable weight in Yurok, a highly endangered Algic language of northwestern California. A productive truncation process has only two‐way contrast between light and heavy syllables, shortening nouns to bimoraic word minimum, CVV or CVC. Within the prominence system, however, CVC syllables must be distinguished. Syllables with long vowels Yurok always attract stress are realized steady high pitch on stressed syllable, while do not stress. Additional issues addressed include syllabification preglottalized sonorants laryngeal codas.