Abstract Few studies have explored the relevance of metrical structures in segmental processes. This paper shows that Dagbani (Gur, Ghana), has a prosodic word dominating a trochaic foot which licenses segmental processes and phonotactics. The foot is the domain for marked vowels and unmarked consonants. The prosodic word regulates the sequencing of syllables of different degrees of sonority and weight within a word. The Optimality Theoretic analyses make use of classical metrical theory and prosodic principles used in defining the prosodic word in stress languages to highlight the typological relevance of these principles and the prosodic universality of these metrical structures.

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在 Dagbani 中用分段过程定义韵律词

摘要 很少有研究探讨韵律结构在节段过程中的相关性。本文表明，Dagbani (Gur, Ghana) 有一个韵律词，它支配着一个 trochaic 足，它许可了音段过程和语音。脚是标记元音和不标记辅音的域。韵律词调节一个词中不同响度和重量的音节的顺序。最优性理论分析利用古典韵律理论和韵律原则来定义重音语言中的韵律词，以突出这些原则的类型相关性和这些韵律结构的韵律普遍性。