Stress occurs on the penultimate syllable of a stem (stems in Bare'e are minimally disyllabic). The epenthetic vowel /i/ that is added to a word originally ending in a consonant does not cause stress to shift, resulting in antepenultimate stress on the surface. The addition of prefixes does not influence the position of stress at all. They do not bear secondary stress, since in Bare'e the pitch-pattern of a word rises towards the stressed syllable, going down on the final syllable without any rhythmic pattern. Most suffixes do not affect the position of the stress, either. (Adriani 1931)
