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Awtuw
latitude,longitude:
-3.6,142
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1986 Feldman, Harry. 1986. A grammar of Awtuw. Canberra: Australian National University.
2002 Gordon, Matthew. 2002. A factorial typology of quantity insensitive stress. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20. pages 491-552.
1986 Feldman, H. (1986). A Grammar of Awtuw. Pacific Linguistics, Series B, No 94.
  Main stress may be initial, there is also a tendency to stress the penult. In bisyllabic words these tendencies have the same result, there stress is regular. If not then often main stress P and secondary stress initial. There are many exceptions (Feldman 1986)
ˈkinik sit
ˌowtiyˈkayæn old
ˈwaruke big
ˈlape village
ˈim night
ˈom you two
ˌperiyaˈyawnow grass
ˌowtiyˈkayæn old
wiyˈtape river
wiyˈtape ka at the river
ˈwaruke big
orkeweyˈnaywo four