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In words of all sizes, primary stress falls on the initial syllable if it has secondary stress, else on the peninitial syllable if has secondary stress. In words of all sizes, secondary stress falls on all heavy syllables. In sequences of light syllables, secondary stress falls on the even numbered syllables, counting from the right edge of the sequence. Secondary stress does not fall on a light syllable which is directly preceded by a heavy syllable. Heavy syllables only occur word initially. There are no light monosyllables.


Dixon, Robert M. W. 1981. Wargamay. In R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake, eds. Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol. 2. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. pp. 1-144.
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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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Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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