We analyse the distribution of vowel laxness and stress alternations in Slovenian nouns (for example in the nominative and genitive forms of the masculine noun [ˈjɛzik ~ jeˈzika] ‘tongue’), showing that stress shifts away from mid lax vowels in initial syllables. A stress shift of this sort is predicted by positional faithfulness (Beckman 1997). We show that this prediction is correct, contra McCarthy (2007, 2010) and Jesney (2011). The productivity of the pattern is confirmed in a large-scale nonce-word task. Stress shift in Slovenian is a result of the markedness of mid lax vowels and, perhaps counterintuitively, faithfulness to laxness in initial stressed position.

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位置忠诚导致斯洛文尼亚语的松懈变化

我们分析了斯洛文尼亚名词中元音松弛度和重音交替的分布（例如在阳性名词 [ˈjɛzik ~ jeˈzika] 'tongue' 的主格和属格形式中），表明重音从初始音节中的中松弛元音转移。位置忠诚度可以预测这种压力转移（Beckman 1997）。我们证明这个预测是正确的，反麦卡锡 (2007, 2010) 和杰斯尼 (2011)。该模式的生产力在大规模随机词任务中得到证实。斯洛文尼亚语中的重音转移是由于中间松弛元音的显着性以及可能违反直觉的对初始重音位置松弛的忠实度的结果。