![]() First, without support from Cupeño, root faithfulness may be unattested as a feature of lexical accent systems. Thus reanalyzed, Cupeño has two important typological implications. I show that the BAP analysis is both simpler and attains greater empirical coverage than the root faithfulness analysis, which fails to account for certain attested stress patterns that are captured under the BAP analysis. This analysis is compared to that of Alderete (2001), who argues that Cupeño shows accentual root faithfulness - i.e., that the accentual properties of roots are privileged over non-root morphemes. I argue that stress assignment in Cupeño is governed by the BASIC ACCENTUATION PRINCIPLE (BAP Kiparsky and Halle 1977): stress is assigned to the leftmost lexically accented morpheme, else to the word’s left edge. This dissertation develops optimality-theoretic analyses of word-level stress assignment in two languages with lexical accent, Cupeño (Takic, Uto-Aztecan) and Hittite (Anatolian, Indo-European) it also assesses the implications of word stress in Hittite and the other Anatolian languages for the reconstruction of stress assignment in Proto-Indo European.
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