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Lect:
Lavukaleve
latitude,longitude:
-9,159
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 2 ] Sources [ 1 ] Words [ 14 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
I;LEX
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
i2@m
 ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Lavukaleve) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 1 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
closed_syll: yes
syllable_template: (C)V(C)

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1999 Terrill, A. (1999). A grammar of Lavukaleve: a Papuan language of the Solomon Islands. PhD Thesis, Australian National University.
27: Stress is realised as a slightly louder and lengthened syllable. Stress assignment is partly fixed and partly lexically assigned. Most words have stress on their initial syllable. A small proportion of words (something around 0.05% in the corpus) has stress on their second syllable. Of these, many are old reduplications of the form CaVbCaVbX(X...); that is, the word looks as if its first CV syllable has been reduplicated. Others are obvious recent loan words which retain the stress pattern of the original word. For the rest, there is no obvious formal reason for the non-initial stress. It appears simply to be a property of these words. A very few words have stress on their third syllable. Those phenomena relating to mono-morphemic words will be exemplified first. Stress patterns in morphologically complex words will be described after this.. (Terrill 1999:27)
29: Secondary stress occurs every second syllable in either direction from the syllable with primary stress. (Terrill 1999:29)
ˈtata spider
ˈurio crab
ˈsiriae fishing
ˈbeata leatherback turtle
ˈmikat centipede
ˈmanoˌgiriˌgiri seagull sp
ˈloviˌtan eel sp.
ˌmitaˈkeu dog
foˈsal fish
vaˈvar talk
buˈtaeo eagle
ˌmalaˈgula bird
ˈnu hair
ˈo nu his hair