Abstract In this paper, I present a new account of word stress in Hindi. I begin with the attempt to show that the apparently different patterns of Hindi stress described in the literature are in fact bound by one core pattern. The core pattern crucially involves an interdependence between rhythm and quantity in the placement of stress within a window of three syllables from the right. The Hindi data pose the following challenge to metrical stress theory and OT: ternary feet arise not from Extrametricality or Nonfinality but from a weight and rhythm-based foot structure in which both the factors are integrated. The new analysis presented in this paper meets the challenge in terms of the constraints Window ( Kager, 2012 ), PERFECTGRID and PG – FORWARDPULL. The latter constraints are proposed following the insights in Prince (1983) and Hayes (1995) .

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印地语单词重音的最优理论解释

摘要 在这篇论文中，我提出了一个关于印地语重音的新解释。我首先试图表明，文献中描述的明显不同的印地语重音模式实际上受一个核心模式的约束。核心模式至关重要地涉及节奏和数量之间的相互依存关系，将重音放置在右侧三个音节的窗口内。印地语数据对度量重音理论和 OT 提出了以下挑战：三元脚不是来自超度量或非终结性，而是来自基于重量和节奏的脚结构，其中整合了这两个因素。本文中提出的新分析在约束窗口 (Kager, 2012)、PERFECTGRID 和 PG – FORWARDPULL 方面迎接了挑战。后面的约束是根据 Prince (1983) 和 Hayes (1995) 的见解提出的。