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Universal 890:

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Iambic vs. Troachaic phrase accent and its many correlates
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Keywords

phrase accent, word canon, timing, mora, syllable, consonantism, vocalism, tone, verse, music, order, object, verb, adverb, auxiliary, adjective, noun, attributive, postposition, clitic, enclitic proclitic, affix-order, suffix, prefix, synthesis, analysis, agglutination, polysynthesis, flexion, isolation

Domain

prosodic phonology, morphology, syntax

Type

mutual implication

Status

achronic

Quality

statistical

Basis

Mon-Khmer, Munda, Khamti-Tai, Chamic, Sinitic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Thai, Indonesian, Tibeto-Burman, Australian, Austronesian, Uralic, Altaic, Japanese, Basque, Germanic, Romance, Celtic families

Source

Donegan & Stampe 1983, Stampe 1985, summarized in Plank 1998

Counterexamples

For counterexamples of the correlation between verb/object and noun/modifier orders see #107.