… As well as lengthening and deletion, other clues to the iambic nature of Kera … Kera phonology,
and that Kera adds to the list of languages with foot structure in the absence of overt stress…

… stress in the form of higher pitch or greater intensity, this paper will consider the evidence for
a metrical system in Kera (… Iambic feet are constructed over a combination of light and heavy …

… Kera demonstrates an interaction between the iambic foot and … of the standard Kera dialect
who grew up in the main Kera-… Kera has no obvious word-level phonetic stress, but we will …

… to remain at the end of words without being lengthened.Pearce (2006a, 2007a, b) claims
that these processes demonstrate foot structure and iambicity, and that there is a strong …

… occurs within iambic feet because there is no -ɔ … Kera, there is no stress that is independent
from weight, the amplitude is the same for all heavy syllables and pitch does not mark stress…

… Kera is not the type of language where surface stress provides clear evidence for foot … This
thesis makes the claim that Kera has an iambic foot made up of one or two syllables. The non-…

… Kera demonstrates an interaction between the iambic foot and … of the standard Kera dialect
who grew up in the main Kera-… Kera has no obvious word-level phonetic stress, but we will …

… stress minimal pairs), and here we investigate the possibility that Kera’a has evidence for
regular, non-phonemic stress … languages spoken in the Himalayas and iambic stress patterns …

… The three non-existent cases have in common that iambic structure refers to the right
edge. In Anti-Garawa one iamb is constructed at the right edge, while in Anti-Pintupi and Anti-Piro …

… But the 3 non-high–ATR vowels have+ ATR allophones in non-heads of iambic feet1. This
… Kera is not alone in having such alternations between stressed and unstressed syllables. …