Prosody and Morphosyntax in Sora: A preliminary study

This study investigates phonetic prominence in morphologically inflected and derived words in Sora, a Munda language spoken in India. The study is based on Sora speech data collected from native Sora men and women while they said targeted three and four syllable Sora words in isolation, in inherently quasi-focal frames, and in out-of-focus frames. Experimental results show that in both three and four syllable Sora words, phonetic prominence, cued by greater vowel intensity, is present on the second syllable.