Abstract
Samoan locative accent has been variously described as a lengthening of the final vowel, as a stress shift, and as a combination of the two. Measurements of the durations and pitches of the vowels involved support a two-part interpretation of locative accent: (1) the first vowel (corresponding to a stressed short vowel in the nonlocative use) is unstressed, and (2) the second vowel (corresponding to an unstressed short vowel in the nonlocative use) is a long vowel. There is thus no global accent on words with locative accent in Samoan. Therefore Samoan locative accent is quite different from Tongan definitive accent (with global accents, as described in Condax [1989]), to which Samoan locative accent has been compared.
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