This talk addresses some theoretical problems raised by accentual exceptions, focusing on two types of accent systems traditionally analyzed in terms of lexical accents : (i) lexical accent systems with accented dominant affixes (e.g., Russian, Vedic Sanskrit), and (ii) those phonological weight-sensitive systems (which I call “hybrid”) where certain morphemes violate the accent rule (e.g., Eastern Literary Mari, Mattole, Tokyo Japanese).
Problem : how to capture regular and exceptional accent patterns using the same accentual grammar, both within a given accent system and across (i) and (ii) ?
Alexandre Vaxman ■ University of Connecticut
