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Universal 1064:

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Universal 1064:

Original
Languages often have mechanisms to remove stress from final position, often putting it in penultimate position; but there is no corresponding tendency for stress to shift into final position. Also, there is a tendency for stress to be shifted out of second position; but no language will readjust echo stress (iterative secondary stress) so that is occurs in second position rather than initially.
Standardized
Synchronic stress shifts may be from final to other (often penultimate) syllables or from second to other (often initial) syllables, but never the other ways around.
Keywords
stress, syllable
Domain
prosodic phonology
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
sample of 444 languages in Hyman 1977
Source
Hyman 1977: 42
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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