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Turkish stress: a review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2004

Sharon Inkelas
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Cemil Orhan Orgun
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis

Abstract

This work evaluates an argument recently made in these pages by Kabak & Vogel (2001) to the effect that the analysis of Turkish which they develop is superior on theoretical grounds to that of past accounts. Kabak & Vogel explicitly contrast their account to that offered in two recent, comprehensive discussions of Turkish stress by Inkelas & Orgun (1998) and Inkelas (1999). Careful consideration of the data discussed by Kabak & Vogel and by Inkelas & Orgun, as well as some additional data introduced in this paper, shows that the original Inkelas & Orgun analysis achieves greater empirical coverage while using less theoretical machinery.

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Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

We are grateful to Juliette Blevins, Andrew Garrett, Teresa McFarland, Anne Pycha, Pat Shaw and Cheryl Zoll, as well as the associate editor and three anonymous reviewers, for providing useful feedback. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1st Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL), at MIT; we thank the attendees, especially Jonathan Barnes, Mürvet Enç, Fetiye Karabay, Meltem Kelepir, Nihan Ketrez, Jaklin Kornfilt, Andrew Nevins and Balkız Öztürk, for discussion, additional data and native speaker judgments.