STUDIMI I THEKSIT TË SHQIPES NË FONOLOGJINË METRIKE DHE NË TEORINË E OPTIMALITETIT
THE STUDY OF ALBANIAN STRESS IN METRICAL PHONOLOGY AND OPTIMALITY THEORY

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to provide explanations for the Albanian stress. What characterizes this is immovability during inflection: whichever syllable following the stem is irrelevant to stress assignment (Lowman 1932, Bevington 1974, Canalis 2007). Since it may fall on different syllables, Albanian linguists have argued that the stress position in the Albanian words cannot be presented with a general rule and that, indefinite form of the nouns, it falls on the penultimate syllable: therefore, even in the borrowings from different languages this is regulated according to this tendency (Dodi 1970). In addition, even the movement of the stress may be presented through the mechanic regulation (Topalli 1995). As a first treatment, stress will be treated in rules representations (Bevington 1974), in the framework of Metrical Phonology and as part of the Optimality Theory (Maynard 1997, Trommer & Grimm 2004, Canalis 2007, Bozhoviq 2012, Bermúdez-Otero 2007, Rugova 2006). The approach of these authors how they have represented the study of stress in general and, the study in Albanian in particular, has surpassed the appearances of its placement in the domain of word or syllable – explaining the relationship between stress and syllable weight and analysis of stress through constraints.

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