53: Bisyllabic words have initial stress. Main stress falls on the second vowel, and secondary stresses on alternating vowels thereafter. (Hayes 1980:53)

79: Final vowels do not receive stress. (Hayes 1980:79)

1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

121: In words with an even number of syllables, the penult is stressed and not the final Hayes (1995:266). Moreover, stress is assigned to mora's, sometimes diving a long vowel into two feet.. (Hayes 1995:121)

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.

50: All words beginning with a syllable containing an organic short vowel, inherently unglottalized, are accented on the second syllable, unless the second syllable is final and therefore unvoiced, in which case the main stress is thrown back on the first syllable (Hyman 1977:50)

1930 Sapir, E. (1930). Southern Paiute, A Shoshonean Language. In: Proceedings of the American Society of Arts and Sciences. Vol 65, No 1-3.

1966 Harms, R.T. (1966). Stress, voice and length in Southern Paiute. IJAL 32, 228-235.

232: Bisyllabic words have initial stress. Main stress falls on the second vowel, and secondary stresses on alternating vowels thereafter. (Harms 1966:232)

aˈčakki to fall

oˈtaapi pole

ˈkani house

kʷaˈaxʷi grass seed

čaˈka.iˌcini my younger brother

tɨ. xwˈi .i ˌna. tɨ ˌβicu xwˌa i ˌʔi ŋwa go and ask him to tell a story

ačakkɨ to fall