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In words of all sizes, primary stress falls on the initial syllable. In words of all sizes, secondary stress falls iteratively on odd numbered syllables, counting from the right.


Voorhoeve, C. 1965. The Flamingo Bay dialect of the Asmat language. 's-Gravenhage:M. Nijhoff.
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Gordon, Matthew. 2002. A factorial typology of quantity insensitive stress. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20. pages 491-552.
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1965 Voorhoeve, C. 1965. The Flamingo Bay dialect of the Asmat language. 's-Gravenhage:M. Nijhoff.