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latitude,longitude:
Pattern:
In words of all sizes, primary stress falls on the penultimate syllable if it has secondary stress, else on the antepenultimate syllable if it has secondary stress. In words of all sizes, secondary stress falls on all heavy syllables. In sequences of light syllables, secondary stress falls on even numbered syllables, counting from the left edge of the sequence.
- Stowell, T. 1979. Stress systems of the world, unite! In K. Safir, ed. Papers on Syllable Structure, Metrical Structure, and Harmony Processes. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 1.
- Excerpt not available.
- Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- (215) Excerpt not available.
type:
quantity-sensitive bounded (qsb)
subtype:
binary
No theoretical analysis for this pattern.
Here is the result:
FSA head
FSA tail
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VV
weight:
1
V
weight:
0
1979
Stowell, T. 1979. Stress systems of the world, unite! In K. Safir, ed. Papers on Syllable Structure, Metrical Structure, and Harmony Processes. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 1.
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