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Lect:
Bhojpuri (ST1)
latitude,longitude:
25.5,84
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 2 ] Sources [ 2 ] Words [ 6 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
A-U/P
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary Centrifugal, iterative, QS ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Bhojpuri) ≥1 syllable exceptional

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

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No syllabic weight information for this lect.

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.
75: Words with only short vowels and no vowel clusters or diphtongs are stressed on the penultimate syllable, unless the word ends in a checked syllable, in which case stress is final. (Hyman 1977:75)
77: Stress is antepenultimate if there is at least one syllable preceding it. (Hyman 1977:77)
1971 Trammel, R.L. (1971). The phonology of the northern standard dialect of Bhojpur:, Anthr. lx. 13, pp 126-141.
138: Words with only short vowels and no vowel clusters or diphtongs are stressed on the penultimate syllable, unless the word ends in a checked syllable, in which case stress is final. (Trammel 1971:138)
138: Stress is antepenultimate if there is at least one syllable preceding it. (Trammel 1971:138)
138: The first non-final long vowel or V-cluster has primary stress. Stress is never before the antepenult. (Trammel 1971:138)
ˌgaˈlab to melt
ˌbaˈhini sister
aguaˈiːkaˌrab to lead
ˌkʰaˈtamkaˌrab to finish
ˌhaˈriar green
ˌkʰajuˈaːib to scratch