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In:Syllable Weight in African Languages
Edited by Paul Newman
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 338] 2017
► pp. 69–82

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Chapter 4
Syllable weight in Amharic

Published online: 12 April 2017
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Phonological background of Amharic
  • 3.Amharic stress
    • 3.1The basic stress pattern
    • 3.2Geminates attract stress
    • 3.3Summarizing Amharic stress
  • 4.Adjectival reduplication in Amharic
    • 4.1Previous literature on adjectival reduplication
    • 4.2Describing adjectival reduplication in Amharic
    • 4.3Reduplication summary
  • 5.Discussion
    • 5.1Languages that provide evidence for geminates as inherently moraic
    • 5.2Languages in which CVG but not CVC syllables are heavy
      • 5.2.1San’ani Arabic
      • 5.2.2Cahuilla
    • 5.3Implications for theories of syllable weight
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
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