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Universal 1071:

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Universal 1071:

Original
While a tone can be restricted in occurrence by an adjacent voiced vs. voiceless consonant, no stress language assigns stress on such a basis. Stress will generally be assigned without reference to segmentals except in two potential situations: (i) there is severe articulatory conflict, and (ii) there is perceptual conflict from within the phonological system.
Standardized
While a tone can be restricted in occurrence by an adjacent voiced vs. voiceless consonant, no stress language assigns stress on such a basis. Stress will generally be assigned without reference to segmentals except in two potential situations: (i) there is severe articulatory conflict, and (ii) there is perceptual conflict from within the phonological system.
Keywords
stress, tone, consonant
Domain
prosodic phonology
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
sample of 444 languages in Hyman 1977
Source
Hyman 1977: 49, 50, referring to Hyman 1973: 154
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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