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In words with 3 or more syllables, primary stress occurs on the final syllable, if it is superheavy, else on the penultimate syllable if it is heavy, else on the antepenultimate syllable if it has secondary stress, else on the preantepenultimate syllable if it has secondary sress.


Brame, Michael. 1973. On Stress Assignment in Two Arabic Dialects. In Stephen R. Anderson and Paul Kip[arsky, eds. A Festschrift for Morris Halle. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York. pp 14-25.
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Brame, Michael. 1974. The Cycle in Phonology: Stress in Palestinean, Maltese and Spanish. Linguistic Inquiry 5. 39-60.
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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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