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Lunden, S. L. Anya
S. L. Anya Lunden is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William & Mary. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
2010 0-7734-3760-6Advances a theory of weight in which a syllable shape in a given position is only heavy if it, on average, is sufficiently proportionally longer than a CV (consonant-vowel) in the same position. While the analysis of weight is consistent with the basic tenets of moraic theory, a departure is made from standard moraic theory which takes moras to be prosodic units associated directly to segments.