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Lect:
Galela
latitude,longitude:
2.15,128.4
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 1 ] Sources [ 3 ] Words [ 7 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
P;A (IRR)
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
AbsentAbsent
 ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Galela) ≥1 syllable exceptional

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syllable_template: (C)V

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  Baarda, M.J. van (1891). Beknopte spraakkunst van de Galillareesche taal. Utrecht: Kemink
1908 Baarda, M.J. van (1908). Leiddraad bij het bestudeeren van 't Galela'sch dialect op het eiland Halmaheira. The Hague: M.Nijhoff (KITLV)
1990 Shelden, H. (1990). Galela phonemes and stress. Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Culture 8: 77-88. Ambon: Pattimura University + SIL
  Most monomorphemic words of more than one syllable have penultimate stress. Loanwords get penultimate stress, but when borrowed words with underlying closed syllables undergo vowel paragogue, the result is surface antepenultimate stress. There are also some words that are not obvious loans but which, nevertheless, have surface antepenultimate stress. They may turn out to be recent borrowings from neighbouring languages which did not drop the final consonants which occurred in Proto-North Halmaheran. These words are all characterized by having antepenultimate stress and by having identical vowels in the final two syllable separated by one of the consonants from the set /t k m n N s l r/. (Shelden 1990)
ˈtuma egret
goˈtola cockatoo
bobaraˈmahi kind of fish
koborogiˈrogi kind of tree
ˈpugili thigh
baˈʔoloŋo kind of sea snake
ŋaˈkahaka kind of bird