Rara #17

Legacy number: 17

 Number  17
 Phenomenon  Resolved Moraic Trochee as foot type
 Found in  (esp. older) Germanic (IE); Cayuvava (Andean-Equatorial) (?)
 Domain  phonology — foot structure
 Type  rarum (or infrequentale?)
 Keywords  moraic trochee, resolved
 Source  Dresher, B. Elan & Aditi Lahiri (1991). The Germanic foot: Metrical coherence in Germanic. Linguistic Inquiry 22: 251-286.
Hayes, Bruce (1995). Metrical Stress Theory: Principles and Case Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Key, Harold (1961). The phonotactics of Cayuvava. IJAL 27: 143-150.
 Violates  not yet in UA: Foot inventory in Hayes 1995

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