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In words of three or more syllables, primary stress falls on the final syllable if it is superheavy, else on the penultimate syllable if it has secondary stress, else on the antepenultimate syllable if it has secondary stress. In words of two or fewer syllables, primary stress falls on the final syllable if it is heavy, else on the penultimate syllable if it is heavy, else on the final syllable. In words of three or more syllables, secondary stress falls on all heavy syllables. In sequences of light syllables, secondary stress falls on the even numbered syllables, counting from the left edge of the sequence. This pattern is used only for the sake of defining main stress. Secondary stress is absent on the surface.

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Kenstowicz. 1981. The Metrical Structure of Arabic Accent. Paper delivered at the UCLA-USC conference on Nonlinear Phonology, LakeArrowhead, Calif.

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Kenstowicz, Michael. 1983. Parametric Variation and Accent in the Arabic Dialects. Chicago Linguistic Society 19, 205-213.

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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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