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In words of three or more syllables, primary stress falls on the penultimate syllable if it is heavy, else on the antepenultimate syllable if it is heavy, else on the antepenultimate syllable. In words of two or fewer syllables, primary stress falls on the initial syllable. In words of all sizes, there is no secondary stress. Light monosyllables do not occur.


Mester, R. Armin. 1994. The quantitative trochee in Latin. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 12: 1-61.
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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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1981 Hayes, Bruce. 1981. A metrical theory of stress rules. 1980. Ph.D. thesis, MIT.