On exceptional stress assignment in Latvian: the case of prefixes

Antonio Fábregas, Martin Krämer and Anna Vulāne

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2018, vol. 49, issue 4, 529-552

Abstract: In this article, we examine some previously understudied exceptions to the generalization that Latvian assigns stress to the left-most syllable in a prosodic word, specifically those that involve prefixation. We will show that these apparent exceptions in stress assignment follow from the internal structural properties of the word and are a result of attaching the prefix outside the domain where stress is assigned, which is up to the first functional head inside the hierarchy. Our treatment combines the syntactic structure of a neoconstructionist approach to word formation with an optimality theory formalization at the phonological level.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2018.1466817

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