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Language:
Arabic, North Levantine Spoken
Lect:
Arabic, Lebanese
Language family:
Arabic, North Levantine Spoken (living)
Country:
Syria
latitude,longitude:
33.85,35.8
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 2 ] Sources [ 2 ] Words
Pattern:
STC: P/A, SPC: 23/3R
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Prose Analysis Attributes [ 1 ] Theoretical Analysis [ 1 ] Computational Analysis Lects [ 6 ]

In all words, primary stress occurs on the penultimate syllable if it is heavy, else on the antepenultimate syllable if it is heavy, else on the antepenultimate syllable.

No sources or passages associated with this pattern in this lect.

type: quantity-sensitive bounded (qsb)
Right, QS, trochaic if LL, right if HH, right EM (v1) theory: StressTyp Parameters

FSA tail

fsa_tail

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

No syllabic template information for this lect.

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
180: Essentially the stress pattern of Classical Latin (stress the antepenult if the penult is light, stress the penult if it is heavy and in disyllables). (Hayes 1995:180)
1980 Kenstowicz, M.J. & K.Abdul-Karim (1980). Cyclic Stress in Levantine Arabic. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 10.2. Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana.

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