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Huasteco
latitude,longitude:
21.5,-98.5
Patterns [ 6 ] Attributes Syllables [ 3 ] Sources [ 5 ] Words
Pattern:
rightmost heavy, else initial
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In words of all sizes, primary stress falls on the right-most heavy syllable, else on the initial syllable. In words of all sizes, there is no secondary stress.

Larsen, R. S., and Pike, E. V. 1949. Huasteco intonations and phonemes. Language, 25, 268-277.
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Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.
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type: quantity-sensitive unbounded (qsub)
subtype: single

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FSA tail

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Syllable Parameters [ 1 ] Syllabic Template Weight [ 2 ]
long_v: yes

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VV weight: 1
V weight: 0
1995 Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.
1981 Hayes, Bruce. 1981. A metrical theory of stress rules. 1980. Ph.D. thesis, MIT.
58: Main stress falls on the rightmost long vowel, otherwise on the initial syllable (Hayes 1980:58)
1977 Hyman, Larry. 1977. On the nature of linguistic stress. Studies in stress and accent: Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4 ed. by Larry Hyman. Los Angeles: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Southern California.
  (Hyman 1977:51)
1949 Larsen, R. S., and Pike, E. V. 1949. Huasteco intonations and phonemes. Language, 25, 268-277.
1949 Larsen, R.S. & E.V. Pike (1949). Huasteco Intonations and Phonemes. In: Language 25. pp. 268-277

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