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Floating H (and L*) Tones in Ancient Greek

This paper looks at two recent approaches to accentuation in Ancient Greek, Steriade 1988 and Sauzet 1989. Both Steriade and Sauzet include treatments of enclitic accentuation in Ancient Greek which I will argue need to be revised. Steriade offers a metrical analysis that is consistent with most of the data but theoretically suspect. Sauzet 1989 offers a mixed metrical/autosegmental account that is theoretically more appealing but-fails to account for established generalizations about enclitic accentuation. I will adopt the general framework of Sauzet, which seems to be more in line with normal (non -enclitic) accentuation in Ancient Greek, but revise his analysis of enclitic accent. The result, I hope, will be a more insightful approach to enclitic accent than either Steriade's or Sauzet's. An added bonus of the present analysis is that it uses the same footing procedures that Allen (1973 ) has motivated independently for Ancient Greek primary and secondary stress- -this is true of neither Sauzet's nor Steriade's analyses.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/227262
Date January 1990
CreatorsGolston, Chris
ContributorsMyers, James, PĂ©rez, Patricia E., University of California, Los Angeles
PublisherDepartment of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
RelationArizona Phonology Conference Vol. 3, Phonology in the Old Pueblo, Coyote Papers

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