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A Factorial Typology of Quantity-Insensitive Stress

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This paper presents an Optimality-theoretic (Prince and Smolensky 1993) analysis of quantity-insensitive stress. A set of grid-based constraints is shown by means of a computer-generated factorial typology to provide a relatively tight fit to the full range of stress systems attested in an extensive survey of quantity-insensitive stress patterns, many of which have not been previously discussed in the theoretical literature.

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Gordon, M. A Factorial Typology of Quantity-Insensitive Stress. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 20, 491–552 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015810531699

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