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Universal 1073:
- Original
- Syllabification across a word boundary may be less likely in a language with initial stress than in a language with final stress.
- Standardized
- Syllabification across a word boundary may be less likely in a language with initial stress than in a language with final stress.
- Keywords
- stress, syllabification, word boundary
- Domain
- prosodic phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- sample of 444 languages in Hyman 1977
- Source
- Hyman 1977: 55
- Counterexamples
IF syllabification across word boundaries is possible, THEN word stress is likelier to be final than initial.