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Language:

Asmat, Casuarina Coast

Lect:

Asmat

Language family:

Asmat, Casuarina Coast (living)

Country:

Indonesia

latitude,longitude:

-5.5,138.5

Stress Type

Pattern Description

Notes

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Pattern Name

Word Size

Pattern Kind

primary

STC	SPC
U	1R

≥1 syllable

dominant

primary

STC	SPC
U;P (IRR)

≥1 syllable

dominant

secondary

STC	SPC
	i2@1R

≥1 syllable

dominant

secondary

Iambic, iterative

≥1 syllable

dominant

in_toto

final; alt secondary

≥1 syllable

dominant

exceptional

Exceptional (Asmat)

≥1 syllable

exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

closed_syll: yes

syllable_template: (C)V(C) ??

any weight: 0

2002 Gordon, Matthew. 2002. A factorial typology of quantity insensitive stress. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20. pages 491-552.

1965 Voorhoeve, C. 1965. The Flamingo Bay dialect of the Asmat language. 's-Gravenhage:M. Nijhoff.

25-26: There is a regular alternation of accented and unaccented vowels. In certain cases, however, sequences of two, at most three, unaccented vowels occur. Furthermore, there are some cases of multi-vowelled onomatopoeia in which no alternation of accented and unaccented vowels is found. Words with two vowels, as a rule, have the accent on the second vowel, although initial stress and even some minimal pairs are found. Words with three vowels have an accent on the first and third vowel, as a rule, the last vowel is stressed more strongly than the first. (Voorhoeve 1965:25-26)

1965 Voorhoeve, C.L. (1965). The Flamingo Bay dialect of the Asmat Language, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal, Land en Volkenkunde 46. The Hague: M.Nijhoff.

uˈsi camp

eˈco revenge

ˌusaˈwic banana

caˈnupir pelican

ˈocen spear

omˈ.ocen kind of spear

eˈmen.meˈten calf band

ˈumu.naˈkap full

ˈtow.om.iw.ˈtaw to bring something inside for someone

ˈme.tewer.ˈic take it