Dispreferred have stress the short vowel asheninca

2.The exercise on Asheninca is designed to illustrate some additional complexities that languages may exhibit in their stress systems. Your main task is to engage with this data and think of ways OT might account for such complexities. You will likely need to think a bit creatively to come up with a solution for the Asheninca problem.

In general, I will be looking for is to see that you (1) carefully considered all potential candidates, (2) have clearly defined all relevant constraints, (3) have carefully considered the constraint rankings, and (4) have accurately evaluated the candidates according to your constraint definitions.

Wargamay

máːl 'man'

gí.ɖa.wù.lu 'freshwater fish'

ɖu.rá.gai.mì.ri 'Niagara Vale-from'

each one means. The constraints discussed in class should be enough to account for the data.

Illustrate your analysis with respect to ‘dilly bag’, ‘fig tree’, and ‘freshwater fish’ by presenting

Part 1

In general, it is dispreferred to have stress on the short vowel [i] in Asheninca. As a consequence,

practice exercise, reproduced below.

no.pí.to 'my canoe'

2. Propose an OT analysis to account for this pattern. Specifically, you will need to select

relevant constraints and specify their crucial ranking. You should try to use constraints introduced

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Part 2
The sequences [ci] and [sji] are never stressed in Asheninca.

pí.ci.ci.ro 'type of bird'

hà.ci.ka.wè.ta.ká.na 'he almost bit me'

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