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Universal 1049:

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Universal 1049:

Original
We would expect that a system which stresses the initial syllable as the elsewhere case (i.e., if words lack a long vowel, full vowel, or heavy syllable that would attract stress) would be more common than a system which places stress on the final syllable in the elsewhere case, regardless of whether stress on strong syllables is determined from the left or from the right.
Standardized
We would expect that a system which stresses the initial syllable as the elsewhere case (i.e., if words lack a long vowel, full vowel, or heavy syllable that would attract stress) would be more common than a system which places stress on the final syllable in the elsewhere case, regardless of whether stress on strong syllables is determined from the left or from the right.
Keywords
stress, syllable
Domain
prosodic phonology
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
survey of some 20 languages
Source
Odden 1979: 162
Counterexamples
Komi Jazva (Permic, Uralic) (analyzed in Kiparsky 1973)

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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